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Shades of goodness = gradability, demandingness and the structure of moral theories /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Shades of goodness/ Rob Lawlor.
Reminder of title:	gradability, demandingness and the structure of moral theories /
Author:	Lawlor, Rob.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2009.,
Description:	x, 245 p. :ill. ; : 23 cm.;
Subject:	Ethics. -
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230239272

Shades of goodness = gradability, demandingness and the structure of moral theories /
Lawlor, Rob.

Shades of goodnessgradability, demandingness and the structure of moral theories /[electronic resource] :Rob Lawlor. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - x, 245 p. :ill. ;23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. ACT-CONSEQUENTIALISM -- PART II: SCALAR CONSEQUENTIALISM --PART III: DEONTOLOGY: ROSS-STYLE PLURALISM -- PART IV: GRADABILITY IN OTHER MORAL THEORIES -- PART V: DEONTOLOGY: NON-GRADABLE MORAL MONISM.

It is typically thought that the demandingness problem is specifically a problem for consequentialists because of the gradable nature of consequentialist theories, and that it is an advantage of nonconsequential theories that they are not gradable in the same way. In contrast, Shades of Goodness argues that most moral theories have a gradable structure, and more significantly that this is an advantage for those theories. The few theories that do avoid gradability have bigger problems of their own and should be rejected. As well as act-consequentialist theories, Shades of Goodness also considers the structure of Ross's moral pluralism, Dancy's particularism, Hooker's rule consequentialism, Scanlon'scontractualism, Finnis's natural law theory, Kant's categorical imperative and the golden rule. Shades of Goodness is aimed at readers interested in moral theories, and particularly those wishing to construct or defend a moral theory.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230239272Subjects--Topical Terms:

76486
Ethics.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

96803
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BJ1031 / .L39 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 171.2

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