Shades of Goodness: Gradability, Demandingness and the Structure of Moral Theories

Lawlor, R.

It is typically thought that the demandingness problem is specifically a problem for consequentialists because of the gradable nature of consequentialist theories. Shades of Goodness argues that most moral theories have a gradable structure and, more significantly, that this is an advantage, rather than a disadvantage, for those theories.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2009-05-14

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230573574

DOI: 10.1057/9780230239272

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 245