Description: Rossian Ethics : . Ross and Contemporary Moral Theory, Hardcover by Phillips, David, ISBN 019060218X, ISBN-13 9780190602185, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US . Ross (1) was the most important opponent of utilitarianism and consequentialism in British moral philosophy between 1861 and 1939. In Rossian Ethics, David Phillips offers the first monograph devoted exclusively to Rosss seminal contribution to moral philosophy.
Th has two connected aims. The first is to interpret and evaluate Rosss moral theory, focusing on its three key elements: his introduction of the concept of prima facie duty, his limited pluralism about the right, and his limited pluralism about the good. The metaethical and epistemological
framework within which Ross develops his moral theory is the subject of the fifth and final chapter of th.
The second aim is to articulate a distinctive view intermediate between consequentialism and absolutist deontology, which Phillips calls "classical deontology." According to classical deontology the most fundamental normative principles are principles of prima facie duty, principles which specify
general kinds of reasons. Consequentialists are right to think that reasons always derive from goods; ideal utilitarians are right, contra hedonistic utilitarians, to think that there are a small number of distinct kinds of intrinsic goods. But consequentialists are wrong to think that all reasons
have the same weight for all agents. Instead there are a small number of distinct kinds of agent-relative intensifiers: features that increase the importance of certain goods for certain agents. Phillips claims that classical deontology combines the best elements of the moral theories of Ross and of
Sidgwick, ultimately arguing that Ross is best interpreted as a classical deontologist.
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Book Title: Rossian Ethics : W.D. Ross and Contemporary Moral Theory
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Rossian Ethics : W. D. Ross and Contemporary Moral Theory
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13.2 Oz
Author: David Phillips
Item Length: 8.4 in
Subject Area: Philosophy
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover
