Value, Welfare, and Morality - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521416965 ISBN 13: 9780521416962

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

This book addresses critical issues in normative ethical theory. Every such theory must contain not only a theory of motivation but also a theory of value, and the link that is often forged between what is valuable and what would be right is human welfare or well-being. This topic is a subject of considerable controversy in contemporary ethics, not least because of the current reconsideration of utilitarianism. Indeed, there is as much disagreement about the nature of value and its relationship to welfare and morality, as there is about the substantive content of normative ethical theories. The essays in this collection, all new and written by a distinguished team of moral philosophers, provide an overview, analysis, and an attempted resolution of those controversies. They constitute the most rigorous available account of the relationship among value, welfare, and morality.

About this title

Book Description:

Addressing critical issues in normative ethical theory, a subject of considerable controversy in contemporary ethics, these original essays provide an overview, analysis, and attempted resolution of the controversies which have arisen in part because of the current reconsideration of utilitarianism.

Review:

"...each essay provides a carefully argued point of view on an important issue....It should be of real interest to anyone working in the relevant areas of value theory." The Philosophical Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0521416965
• ISBN 13: 9780521416962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 340
• Editor: Frey R. G., Morris Christopher W.