Against absolute goodness / Richard Kraut.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kraut, Richard, 1944-

Series:

Oxford moral theory.

Oxford moral theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil.

Moore, G. E. (George Edward), 1873-1958.

Moore, G. E.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 224 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Are there things we should value because they are, quite simply, good? If so, such things might be said to have ""absolute goodness."" They would be good simpliciter or full stop - not good for someone, not good of a kind, but nonetheless good (period). They might also be called ""impersonal values."" The reason why we ought to value such things, if there are any, would merely be the fact that they are, quite simply, good things. In the twentieth century, G. E. Moore was the great champion of absolute goodness, but he is not the only philosopher who posits the existence and importance of this

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Moore and the Idea of Goodness; 2. Goodness before and after Moore; 3. An Argument for Absolute Goodness; 4. Absolute Evil, Relative Goodness; 5. Recent Skepticism about Goodness; 6. Being Good and Being Good for Someone; 7. Noninstrumental Advantageousness; 8. The Problem of Intelligibility; 9. The Problem of Double Value; 10. Pleasure Reconsidered; 11. Scanlon's Buck-Passing Account of Value; 12. Moore's Argument against Relative Goodness; 13. Goodness and Variability; 14. Impersonality: An Ethical Objection to Absolute Goodness

15. Further Reflections on the Ethical Objection16. Moore's Mistake about Unobserved Beauty; 17. Better States of Affairs and Buck-Passing; 18. The Enjoyment of Beauty; 19. Is Love Absolutely Good?; 20. Is Cruelty Absolutely Bad?; 21. Kant on Suicide; 22. Future Generations; 23. Biodiversity; 24. Is Equality Absolutely Good?; 25. The Value of Persons and Other Creatures; 26. Euthanasia; 27. The Extinction of Humankind; 28. The Case against Absolute Goodness Reviewed; 29. The Problem of Intelligibility Revisited; 30. Attributive and Predicative Uses of "Good"; Appendix A: Killing Persons

Appendix B: J. David Velleman on the Value Inhering in PersonsAppendix C: Robert Merrihew Adams on the Highest Good; Appendix D: Thomas Hurka on the Structure of Goods; Appendix E: Jeff McMahan on Impersonal Value; Appendix F: Other Authors and Uses; 1. Plato; 2. Aristotle; 3. John Rawls; 4. John Broome; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-020824-4

1-283-42760-5

9786613427601

0-19-984447-X

OCLC:

773935227