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Utilitarianism and beyond /

A volume of studies of utilitarianism considered both as a theory of personal morality and a theory of public choice. All but two of the papers have been commissioned especially for the volume, and between them they represent not only a wide range of arguments for and against utilitarianism but also...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sen, Amartya Kumar, Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ethical theory and utilitarianism / R.M. Hare
  • Morality and the theory of rational behaviour / John C. Hasrsanyi
  • The economic uses of utilitarianism / J.A. Mirrlees
  • Utilitarianism, uncertainty and information / Peter J. Hammond
  • Contractualism and utilitarianism / T.M. Scanlon
  • The diversity of goods / Charles Taylor
  • Morality and convention / Stuart Hampshire
  • Social unity and primary goods / John Rawls
  • On some difficulties of the utilitarian economist / Frank Hahn
  • Utilitarianism, information and rights / Partha Dasupta
  • Sour grapes
  • utilitarianism and the genesis of want / Jon Elster
  • Liberty and welfare / Isaac Levi
  • Under which descriptions? / Frederic Schick
  • What's the use of going to school? / Amy Gutmann.