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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Blackwell Pub
Publication date
July 1, 1991
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780631171997
ISBN-10
0631171991
Dimensions
0.50 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.20 lbs.
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Great Britain
Original list price
$54.95
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Weighing Lives | Being Realistic About Reasons | The Rejection of Consequentialism | Rethinking the Good | Deontology | Meaning in Life and Why It Matters | Climate Matters | Rationality Through Reasoning | The Concept of Representation
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: This work uses techniques from economics to illuminate fundamental questions in ethics, particularly in the foundations of utilitarianism. Topics considered include the nature of teleological ethics, the foundations of decision theory, the value of equality, and the moral significance of a person's continuing identity through time. The argument is unified around three theorums that connect together the way goods are distributed in three "dimensions": between people, across time within the life of a person, and across the states of nature under uncertainty. In each dimension analogous questions arise about the distribution of goods. Between people, what is the value of equality? Across time, can goods received at one time in a life fully compensate for deprivation at other times? Across states of nature, should we accept the independence axion of expected utility theory? The book treats all these questions as aspects of the general problem of weighing goods. It shows that, not only the three dimensions analogous, but there are strict logical connections between ethical judgements about the distribution of goods in all three. It connects judgements about equality, about risk, and about prudence. The theorems came from economics (although "Weighing Goods" contains no mathematics beyond elementary algebra), but they are set in a philosophical context and the conclusions are in ethics. In turn, the conclusions have important applications in economics.
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Hardcover
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from Blackwell Pub (July 1, 1991)
9780631171997 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.50 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $54.95
About: This work uses techniques from economics to illuminate fundamental questions in ethics, particularly in the foundations of utilitarianism.
About: This work uses techniques from economics to illuminate fundamental questions in ethics, particularly in the foundations of utilitarianism.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Blackwell Pub (November 13, 1995)
9780631199724 | details & prices | 255 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $60.95
About: This study uses techniques from economics to illuminate fundamental questions in ethics, particularly in the foundations of utilitarianism.
About: This study uses techniques from economics to illuminate fundamental questions in ethics, particularly in the foundations of utilitarianism.
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