Goodness and Justice

Goodness and Justice
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 307
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ISBN-10 : 9781139455084
ISBN-13 : 1139455087
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Download or read book Goodness and Justice written by Joseph Mendola and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Goodness and Justice, Joseph Mendola develops a unified moral theory that defends the hedonism of classical utilitarianism, while evading utilitarianism's familiar difficulties by adopting two modifications. His theory incorporates a developed form of consequentialism. When, as is common, someone is engaged in conflicting group acts, it requires that one perform one's role in that group act that is most beneficent. The theory also holds that overall value is distribution-sensitive, ceding maximum weight to the well-being of the worst-off sections of sentient lives. It is properly congruent with commonsense intuition and required by the true metaphysics of value, by the unconstituted natural good found in our world.


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