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The Best Effect: Theology and the Origins of Consequentialism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226829999)
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xA theological history of consequentialism and a fresh agenda for teleological ethics.
Consequentialism--the notion that we can judge an action by its effects alone--has been among the most influential approaches to ethics and public policy in the Anglophone world for more than two centuries. In The Best Effect, Ryan Darr argues that consequentialist ethics is not as secular or as rational as it is often assumed to be. Instead, Darr describes the emergence of consequentialism in the seventeenth century as a theological and cosmological vision and traces its intellectual development and eventual secularization across several centuries. The Best Effect reveals how contemporary consequentialism continues to bear traces of its history and proposes in its place a more expansive vision for teleological ethics.
Author: Ryan Darr
ISBN-10: 0226829995
ISBN-13: 9780226829999
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2023
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d
Consequentialism--the notion that we can judge an action by its effects alone--has been among the most influential approaches to ethics and public policy in the Anglophone world for more than two centuries. In The Best Effect, Ryan Darr argues that consequentialist ethics is not as secular or as rational as it is often assumed to be. Instead, Darr describes the emergence of consequentialism in the seventeenth century as a theological and cosmological vision and traces its intellectual development and eventual secularization across several centuries. The Best Effect reveals how contemporary consequentialism continues to bear traces of its history and proposes in its place a more expansive vision for teleological ethics.
Author: Ryan Darr
ISBN-10: 0226829995
ISBN-13: 9780226829999
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2023
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d
By Ryan Darr
xRyan Darr is a postdoctoral research associate in religion, ecology, and expressive culture at the Yale University Institute of Sacred Music and a lecturer in the Yale Divinity School.
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