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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825993303321

Autore

Murphy Liam B. <1960->

Titolo

Moral demands in nonideal theory / / Liam B. Murphy [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-773094-9

0-585-34692-5

1-280-42796-5

0-19-802413-4

0-19-534676-9

1-4237-8507-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 p.)

Collana

Oxford ethics series

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

170/.42

Soggetti

Benevolence

Social ethics

Utilitarianism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-164) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Over-demandingness, Alienation, and Confinement; 3. Doubts about Over-demandingness; 4. Moderate Beneficence?; 5. Responsibility in Nonideal Theory: The Compliance Condition; 6. The Distribution of the Effects of Compliance; 7. The Collective Principle of Beneficence; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W

Sommario/riassunto

Murphy argues that the problem with utilitarianism is not that it requires too much sacrifice, but rather in our nonideal world of partial compliance it unfairly requires those who do comply to shoulder the shares of the noncompliers as well.