Goodness and Justice: A Consequentialist Moral Theory (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521353557)

In Goodness and Justice, Joseph Mendola develops a unified moral theory that defends the hedonism of classical utilitarianism, while evading utilitarianism's familiar difficulties by adopting two modifications. His theory incorporates a developed form of consequentialism. When, as is common, someone is engaged in conflicting group acts, it requires that one perform one's role in that group act that is most beneficent. The theory also holds that overall value is distribution-sensitive, ceding maximum weight to the well-being of the worst-off sections of sentient lives. It is properly congruent with commonsense intuition and required by the true metaphysics of value, by the unconstituted natural good found in our world.

Author: Joseph Mendola
ISBN-10: 0521353556
ISBN-13: 9780521353557
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/14/2011
Pages: 338
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d