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Goodness and Advice by Fisher, Philip;Gutmann, Amy;Nussbaum, Martha C.;Schneewind, J. B.;Smith, Barbara Herrnstein;Thomson, Judith Jarvis is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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How should we live? What do we owe to other people? In Goodness and Advice, the eminent philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions. In doing so, she makes major advances in moral philosophy, pointing to some deep problems for influential moral theories and describing the structure of a new and much more promising theory. Thomson begins by lamenting the prevalence of the idea that there is an unbridgeable gap between fact and value--that to say something is good, for example, is not to state a fact, but to do something more like expressing an attitude or feeling. She sets out to challenge this view, first by assessing the apparently powerful claims of Consequentialism. Thomson makes the striking argument that this familiar theory must ultimately fail because its basic requirement--that people should act to bring about the "most good"--is meaningless. It rests on an incoherent conception of goodness, and supplies, not mistaken advice, but no advice at all. Thomson then outlines the theory that she thinks we should opt for instead. This theory says that no acts are, simply, good: an act can at most be good in one or another w

Who reads Goodness and Advice?

Author

Fisher, Philip;Gutmann, Amy;Nussbaum, Martha C.;Schneewind, J. B.;Smith, Barbara Herrnstein;Thomson, Judith Jarvis

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691086736

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities