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Rethinking the Good - Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning (Hardcover)
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Rethinking the Good - Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Ethics Series
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In choosing between moral alternatives -- choosing between various
forms of ethical action -- we typically make calculations of the
following kind: A is better than B; B is better than C; therefore A
is better than C. These inferences use the principle of
transitivity and are fundamental to many forms of practical and
theoretical theorizing, not just in moral and ethical theory but in
economics. Indeed they are so common as to be almost invisible.
What Larry Temkin's book shows is that, shockingly, if we want to
continue making plausible judgments, we cannot continue to make
these assumptions.
Temkin shows that we are committed to various moral ideals that
are, surprisingly, fundamentally incompatible with the idea that
"better than" can be transitive. His book develops many examples
where value judgments that we accept and find attractive, are
incompatible with transitivity. While this might seem to leave two
options -- reject transitivity, or reject some of our normative
commitments in order to keep it -- Temkin is neutral on which path
to follow, only making the case that a choice is necessary, and
that the cost either way will be high. Temkin's book is a very
original and deeply unsettling work of skeptical philosophy that
mounts an important new challenge to contemporary ethics.
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