| 书目名称 | Doing the Best We Can | | 副标题 | An Essay in Informal | | 编辑 | Fred Feldman | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | Philosophical Studies Series | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Several years ago I came across a marvelous little paper in which Hector-Neri Castaneda shows that standard versions of act utilitarian l ism are formally incoherent. I was intrigued by his argument. It had long seemed to me that I had a firm grasp on act utilitarianism. Indeed, it had often seemed to me that it was the clearest and most attractive of normative theories. Yet here was a simple and relatively uncontrover sial argument that showed, with only some trivial assumptions, that the doctrine is virtually unintelligible. The gist of Castaneda‘s argument is this: suppose we understand act utilitarianism to be the view that an act is obligatory if and only if its utility exceeds that of each alternative. Suppose it is obligatory for a certain person to perform an act with two parts - we can call it ‘A & B‘. Then, obviously enough, it is also obligatory for this person to perform the parts, A and B. If act utilitarianism were true, we appar ently could infer that the utility of A & B is higher than that of A, and higher than that of B (because A & B is obligatory, and the other acts are alternatives to A & B). | | 出版日期 | Book 1986 | | 关键词 | Immanuel Kant; Indian; Utilitarianism; access; accessibility; concept; deontic logic; individual; morality; p | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4570-8 | | isbn_softcover | 978-94-010-8531-1 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-4570-8Series ISSN 0921-8599 Series E-ISSN 2542-8349 | | issn_series | 0921-8599 | | copyright | D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1986 |
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