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Commonsense Consequentialism - Wherein Morality Meets Rationality (Paperback)
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Commonsense Consequentialism - Wherein Morality Meets Rationality (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Moral Theory
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Commonsense Consequentialism is a book about morality, rationality,
and the interconnections between the two. In it, Douglas W.
Portmore defends a version of consequentialism that both comports
with our commonsense moral intuitions and shares with other
consequentialist theories the same compelling teleological
conception of practical reasons.
Broadly construed, consequentialism is the view that an act's
deontic status is determined by how its outcome ranks relative to
those of the available alternatives on some evaluative ranking.
Portmore argues that outcomes should be ranked, not according to
their impersonal value, but according to how much reason the
relevant agent has to desire that each outcome obtains and that,
when outcomes are ranked in this way, we arrive at a version of
consequentialism that can better account for our commonsense moral
intuitions than even many forms of deontology can. What's more,
Portmore argues that we should accept this version of
consequentialism, because we should accept both that an agent can
be morally required to do only what she has most reason to do and
that what she has most reason to do is to perform the act that
would produce the outcome that she has most reason to want to
obtain.
Although the primary aim of the book is to defend a particular
moral theory (viz., commonsense consequentialism), Portmore defends
this theory as part of a coherent whole concerning our commonsense
views about the nature and substance of both morality and
rationality. Thus, it will be of interest not only to those working
on consequentialism and other areas of normative ethics, but also
to those working in metaethics. Beyond offering an account of
morality, Portmore offers accounts of practical reasons, practical
rationality, and the objective/subjective obligation distinction.
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