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

• Autore: Murphy Liam B. <1960->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (179 p.)
• Disciplina: 170/.42
• Soggetto topico: Benevolence; Social ethics; Utilitarianism
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Moral demands in nonideal theory
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825993303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford ethics series.; Oxford scholarship online.