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The Rejection of Consequentialism - A Philosophical Investigation of the Considerations Underlying Rival Moral Conceptions (Hardcover, Revised edition)
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In contemporary philosophy, substantive moral theories are
typically classified as either consequentialist or deontological.
Standard consequentialist theories insist, roughly, that agents
must always act so as to produce the best available outcomes
overall. Standard deontological theories, by contrast, maintain
that there are some circumstances where one is permitted but not
required to produce the best overall results, and still other
circumstances in which one is positively forbidden to do so.
Classical utilitarianism is the most familiar consequentialist
view, but it is widely regarded as an inadequate account of
morality. Although Samuel Scheffler agrees with this assessment, he
also believes that consequentialism seems initially plausible, and
that there is a persistent air of paradox surrounding typical
deontological views. In this book, therefore, he undertakes to
reconsider the rejection of consequentialism. He argues that it is
possible to provide a rationale for the view that agents need not
always produce the best possible overall outcomes, and this
motivates one departure from consequentialism; but he shows that it
is surprisingly difficult to provide a satisfactory rationale for
the view that there are times when agents must not produce the best
possible overall outcomes. He goes on to argue for a hitherto
neglected type of moral conception, according to which agents are
always permitted, but not always required, to produce the best
outcomes.
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