Facing up to scarcity : the logic and limits of nonconsequentialist thought / Barbara H. Fried.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fried, Barbara, 1951- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consequentialism (Ethics).

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 269 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Logic and limits of nonconsequentialist thought

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Barbara H. Fried presents a powerful critique of the nonconsequentialist approaches that have been dominant in recent Anglophone moral and political thought. She argues that nonconsequentialist theories have disastrous consequences in the political domain and are inadequate at dealing with conflicts of individual interests in the moral domain.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction: Facing up to scarcity : the limits of nonconsequentialism

Facing up to risk

What does matter? : the case for killing the trolley problem (or letting it die)

Can Scanlonian contractualism save us from aggregation?

Tortious harms

Can contractualism be saved?

Is Nozick a libertarian?

Rawls, risk and the maximin principle

The unwritten Theory of justice : Rawlsian liberalism versus libertarianism

Left-libertarianism

Wilt Chamberlain revisited : Nozick's justice in transfer and the problem of market-based distribution

If you don't like it, leave it : the problem of exit in social contractian arguments

The case for a progressive benefits tax.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on CIP data and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-258709-9

0-19-188248-8

0-19-258708-0