Agents, Patients, and Obligatory Self-Benefit

Consequentialism is often criticized for rendering morality too pervasive. One somewhat neglected manifestation of this pervasiveness is the obligatory self-benefit objection. According to this objection, act-consequentialism has the counterintuitive result that certain self-benefitting actions (e.g...

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Main Author: Cholbi, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: Journal of moral philosophy
Year: 2014, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 159-184
Further subjects:B Selfhood
B Self-interest
B Moral Agency
B Consequentialism
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