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The rejection of consequentialism : a philosophical investigation of the considerations underlying rival moral conceptions / Samuel Scheffler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scheffler, Samuel, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consequentialism (Ethics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 196 pages)
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Other Title:
- Philosophical investigation of the considerations underlying rival moral conceptions
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this reconsideration of the case against consequentialism the author has now taken the opportunity to supplement the original work with three susbtantial subsequently published essays in which he responds to criticism of the book and further develops various of its themes and arguments.
- Contents:
- The project and its motivation
- Outline of a new theory of normative ethics
- The independence and distinctness of the personal point of view
- The defence of agent-centred restrictions : intuitions in search of a foundation
- The project reconsidered.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version
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