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Beyond consequentialism [electronic resource] /

by Hurley, Paul (Paul E.).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009Description: 1 online resource (viii, 275 p.).ISBN: 9780191721212 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Consequentialism (Ethics) | PragmatismOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Hurley sets out a radical challenge to consequentialism, the theory which might seem to be the default option in contemporary moral philosophy. There is an unresolved tension within the theory: if consequentialists are right about the content of morality, then morality cannot have the rational authority that even they take it to have.
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Hurley sets out a radical challenge to consequentialism, the theory which might seem to be the default option in contemporary moral philosophy. There is an unresolved tension within the theory: if consequentialists are right about the content of morality, then morality cannot have the rational authority that even they take it to have.

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