Ought implies Kant : a reply to the consequentialist critique / Joel Marks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marks, Joel, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Consequentialism (Ethics).

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (132 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers an unconventional defense of Kantian ethical theory as encompassing moral regard for nonhuman animals and, complementarily, an exhaustive rendition of a relatively neglected refutation of consequentialism as violating an essential meta-ethical condition of theoretical viability.

Contents:

Introduction

Egoism

The consequentialist continuum

Let us boldly go : the case for utilitarianism

Refutation of consequentialism

Nonconsequentialism and the consequentialist critique

The ethics of ethics

Appendix I: What are we talking about? (What is ethics?)

Appendix II: A simple theory (What is theory?)

Appendix III: Animal ethics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-109) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-49418-X

9786612494185

0-7391-3352-7

OCLC:

311300958