LEADER 04339nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910777725903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08746-0 010 $a9786612087462 010 $a1-4008-2472-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400824724 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756295 035 $a(EBL)445555 035 $a(OCoLC)362799240 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000164568 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11160913 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164568 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10124187 035 $a(PQKB)10840608 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36117 035 $a(DE-B1597)446246 035 $a(OCoLC)979970138 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400824724 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445555 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284016 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208746 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445555 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756295 100 $a20020930e20032001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGoodness & advice$b[electronic resource] /$fJudith Jarvis Thomson ; [comments by] Philip Fisher ... [et al.] ; edited and introduced by Amy Gutmann 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (205 p.) 225 1 $aUniversity Center for Human Values series 300 $aOriginally published: 2001. 311 $a0-691-08673-7 311 $a0-691-11473-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction / $rGutmann, Amy -- $tPart One: Goodness / $rThomson, Judith Jarvis -- $tPart Two: Advice / $rThomson, Judith Jarvis -- $tComments -- $tComment / $rFisher, Philip -- $tComment / $rNussbaum, Martha C. -- $tComment / $rSchneewind, J. B. -- $tComment / $rSmith, Barbara Herrnstein -- $tReply to Commentators -- $tReply to Commentators / $rThomson, Judith Jarvis -- $tContributors -- $tIndex 330 $aHow should we live? What do we owe to other people? In Goodness and Advice, the eminent philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions. In doing so, she makes major advances in moral philosophy, pointing to some deep problems for influential moral theories and describing the structure of a new and much more promising theory. Thomson begins by lamenting the prevalence of the idea that there is an unbridgeable gap between fact and value--that to say something is good, for example, is not to state a fact, but to do something more like expressing an attitude or feeling. She sets out to challenge this view, first by assessing the apparently powerful claims of Consequentialism. Thomson makes the striking argument that this familiar theory must ultimately fail because its basic requirement--that people should act to bring about the "most good"--is meaningless. It rests on an incoherent conception of goodness, and supplies, not mistaken advice, but no advice at all. Thomson then outlines the theory that she thinks we should opt for instead. This theory says that no acts are, simply, good: an act can at most be good in one or another way--as, for example, good for Smith or for Jones. What we ought to do is, most importantly, to avoid injustice; and whether an act is unjust is a function both of the rights of those affected, including the agent, and of how good or bad the act is for them. The book, which originated in the Tanner lectures that Thomson delivered at Princeton University's Center for Human Values in 1999, includes two chapters by Thomson ("Goodness" and "Advice"), provocative comments by four prominent scholars--Martha Nussbaum, Jerome Schneewind, Philip Fisher, and Barbara Herrnstein Smith--and replies by Thomson to those comments. 410 0$aUniversity Center for Human Values series. 606 $aConsequentialism (Ethics) 606 $aEthics 615 0$aConsequentialism (Ethics) 615 0$aEthics. 676 $a170 700 $aThomson$b Judith Jarvis$0615126 701 $aFisher$b Philip$f1941-$01523004 701 $aGutmann$b Amy$0129214 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777725903321 996 $aGoodness & advice$93763037 997 $aUNINA