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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).

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• Celý názov: Doing the Best We Can
• Podnázov: An Essay in Informal Deontic Logic
• Autor: Fred Feldman
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Pevná
• Počet strán: 246
• EAN: 9789027721648
• ISBN: 9027721645
• ID: 01971462
• Nakladateľ: Springer
• Hmotnosť: 1210 g
• Rozmery: 297 × 210 × 19 mm

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