RT Article
T1 The Costs of Transitivity: Thoughts on Larry Temkin’s Rethinking the Good
JF Journal of moral philosophy
VO 12
IS 4
SP 462
OP 478
A1 Kagan, Shelly
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1817476920
AB In Rethinking the Good, Larry Temkin argues that the common belief in the transitivity of better than (all things considered) is incompatible with various other value judgments to which many of us are deeply committed; accordingly, we should take seriously the possibility that the better than relation is not, in fact, a transitive one. However, although Temkin is right, I think, about the mutual incompatibility of the beliefs in question, for the most part his examples don’t leave me inclined to deny transitivity. Nonetheless, there is one example, involving infinity, that does seem to me particularly troubling.
K1 Infinity
K1 value judgments
K1 transitivity
K1 better than
K1 Good
DO 10.1163/17455243-01204005