RT Article
T1 Rethinking Rethinking the Good
JF Journal of moral philosophy
VO 12
IS 4
SP 479
OP 538
A1 Temkin, Larry S.
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1817476963
AB This article discusses many issues raised by Munoz-Dardé, Katz, Ross, and Kagan. In doing this, I accept many of their claims, but reject others. I contend that the Essentially Comparative View can make genuine comparisons, deny that a contractualist approach helps with my book’s puzzles, and grant that my book’s central results are difficult to comprehend. I note important differences between economists’s impossibility results and my own, but accept that they may illuminate each other, using Sen’s Paradox of the Paretian Liberal to illustrate this. I consider my work’s implications for the Sorites Paradox, as well as famous deontological cases. I also significantly reassess the Narrow Person-Affecting View, and some of my responses to Parfit and Broome. Finally, I stress my book’s many arguments challenging the Axioms of Transitivity, the high costs of retaining such axioms, and the importance of not prematurely choosing between highly plausible views that are inconsistent.
K1 John Broome
K1 Derek Parfit
K1 Amartya Sen and the Paradox of the Paretian Liberal
K1 Transplant and Surgeon Cases
K1 Sorites Paradox
K1 the Good
K1 transitivity
K1 narrow person-affecting view
K1 Essentially Comparative View
DO 10.1163/17455243-01204006