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Consequentialism

Stephen Darwell (Editor) 

ISBN: 978-0-631-23108-0

November 2002

Wiley-Blackwell

309 pages

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Consequentialism

Stephen Darwell

Paperback
978-0-631-23108-0
November 2002
$35.95
Hardcover
978-0-631-23107-3
November 2002
$147.95
Description

Consequentialism collects, for the first time, both the main classical sources and the central contemporary expressions of this important position. Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, these readings are essential for anyone interested in normative ethics.

  • Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, examines key topics in the consequentialist branch of moral theory.
  • Includes seven essays which respond to the classic sources.
  • Includes an insightful discussion of central topics in consequentialism by John Rawls and Amartya Sen.
  • Includes classic articles by key figures such Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick and G. E. Moore; and recent reactions to this work by philosophers including Philip Pettit, Derek Parfit, Samuel Scheffler, Peter Railton, R. B. Brandt, J. C. Harsanyi, and Robert Adams.
About the Author
Stephen Darwall is the John Dewey Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He has written widely on moral philosophy and its history, and is the author of Impartial Reason (1983), The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought': 1640–1740 (1995), Philosophical Ethics (1998), and Welfare and Rational Care (2002). He is the editor, with Allan Gibbard and Peter Railton, of Moral Discourse and Practice (1997).
Features

  • Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, examines key topics in the consequentialist branch of moral theory.
  • Includes seven essays which respond to the classic sources.
  • Includes an insightful discussion of central topics in consequentialism by John Rawls and Amartya Sen.
  • Includes classic articles by key figures such Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick and G. E. Moore; and recent reactions to this work by philosophers including Philip Pettit, Derek Parfit, Samuel Scheffler, Peter Railton, R. B. Brandt, J. C. Harsanyi, and Robert Adams.
Series
Wiley Blackwell Readings in Philosophy
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