Rethinking the Good – A Small Taste

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• dc.contributor.author Temkin, Larryca
• dc.date.accessioned 2016-05-23T15:57:19Z
• dc.date.available 2016-05-23T15:57:19Z
• dc.date.issued 2014ca
• dc.date.modified 2015-09-30T13:59:00Zca
• dc.description.abstract This article aims to convey a few of the key claims and arguments ofmy book, Rethinking the Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of PracticalReasoning. The article gives an example of a Spectrum Argument, andillustrates that such arguments put pressure on the Axiom of Transitivity,which holds that for any three possible outcomes or alternatives, A, B, andC, if, all things considered, A is better than B, and B is better than C, then Ais better than C. The article distinguishes between two different approachesto understanding the goodness of outcomes, the Internal Aspects View andthe Essentially Comparative View. It suggests that two deeply plausible, butseemingly incompatible, positions underlying the Spectrum Argument,an Additive-Aggregationist Position, and an Anti-Additive-AggregationistPosition, reflect the Essentially Comparative View, and that on such aview they are not incompatible. The article introduces several widely-heldviews about neutrality and dominance principles, and shows that some ofthese views are incompatible. The article contends that various ideals orviews that people care about are most plausibly understood as essentiallycomparative, and notes that one such view, a Narrow Person-Affecting View,will be especially difficult to reject in at least some cases. It also illustrateshow such a view, like other essentially comparative views, threatens theAxiom of Transitivity. The article concludes by contending that we mustseriously rethink our understanding of the good, moral ideals, and thenature of practical reasoning, while recognizing that the way forward ismurky, at best.ca
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• dc.identifier http://www.raco.cat/index.php/LEAP/article/view/297557ca
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/26730
• dc.language.iso engca
• dc.publisher Universitat Pompeu Fabraca
• dc.relation.haspart http://www.raco.cat/index.php/LEAP/article/view/297557/386539ca
• dc.rights.uri The authors transfers a non exclusive rights of distribution, public communication and reproduction of his or her work for publication in Law, Ethics and Philosophy (LEAP) and inclusion in databases in which the journal is indexed.ca
• dc.source.uri Law, Ethics and Philosophy; 2014: Núm. 2; p. 58-86ca
• dc.source.uri Law, Ethics and Philosophy; 2014: Núm. 2; p. 58-86ca
• dc.subject.other Transitivity, Practical Reasoning, Internal Aspects View, Essentially Comparative View, Narrow Person-Affecting View, Spectrum Argument, Additive Aggregation, Good, Better than, Ideals.ca
• dc.title Rethinking the Good – A Small Tasteca
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