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The Limits of Kindness (Hardcover, New)
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The Limits of Kindness (Hardcover, New)
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Caspar Hare presents a novel approach to questions of what we ought
to do, and why we ought to do it. The traditional way to approach
this subject is to begin by supposing a foundational principle, and
then work out its implications. Consequentialists say that we ought
to make the world impersonally better, for instance, while Kantian
deontologists say that we ought to act on universalizable maxims.
And contractualists say that we ought to act in accordance with the
terms of certain hypothetical contracts. These principles are all
grand and controversial. The motivating idea behind The Limits of
Kindness is that we can tackle some of the most difficult problems
in normative ethics by starting with a principle that is humble and
uncontroversial. Being moral involves wanting particular other
people to be better off. From these innocuous beginnings, Hare
leads us to surprising conclusions about how we ought to resolve
conflicts of interest, whether we ought to create some people
rather than others, what we ought to want in an infinite world,
when we ought to make sacrifices for the sake of needy strangers,
and why we cannot, on pain of irrationality, attribute great
importance to the boundaries between people.
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