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Zusatztext This really is an impressive book. It provides the most rigorous argument that I have seen so far for the attractive and increasingly popular suggestion that, by developing the idea of an interpersonal point of view, we get better accounts of both the content and the authority of morality than anything the consequentialists can offer. Informationen zum Autor Paul Hurley is Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, California. Klappentext Paul Hurley sets out a radical challenge to consequentialism, the theory which might seem to be the default option in contemporary moral philosophy. There is an unresolved tension within the theory: if consequentialists are right about the content of morality, then morality cannot have the rational authority that even they take it to have. Zusammenfassung Paul Hurley sets out a radical challenge to consequentialism, the theory which might seem to be the default option in contemporary moral philosophy. There is an unresolved tension within the theory: if consequentialists are right about the content of morality, then morality cannot have the rational authority that even they take it to have. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: The Challenge to Consequentialism: A Troubling Normative Triad 3: The Demandingness Objection: Too Demanding, Or Not Demanding at All? 4: Harnessing Williams to Sharpen the Challenge to Consequentialism 5: Deflating the Challenge ^iof Consequentialism 6: From Impersonality to Interpersonality: Alternative Conceptions of Impartiality 7: Impartial Evaluation and Rational Authority 8: Generalizing to Other Forms of Consequentialism Bibliography
