The consequentialist moral stance known as progressive consequentialism is distinguished by its core guiding intuition-?what Mark Vorobej calls the progressive constraint-that you are morally required to leave the world in better shape than you found it. Popular culture is replete with references to this intriguing but profoundly ambiguous injunction. Philosophers, however, have had surprisingly little to say about either the meaning, the merits, and the practical implications of this neglected moral claim.
This book fills this glaring gap in the literature. Progressive Consequentialism is, first and foremost, a work in moral theory with an aim to carefully disambiguate the progressive constraint and to rigorously explore the semantic content and the normative implications of some of its most promising variants.
| ISBN: | 9798881803049 |
| Publication date: | 23rd December 2024 |
| Author: | Mark Vorobej |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Genres: |
Ethics and moral philosophy Social and political philosophy |
The consequentialist moral stance known as progressive consequentialism is distinguished by its core guiding intuition-?what Mark Vorobej calls the progressive constraint-that you are morally required to leave the world in better shape than you found it. Popular culture is replete with references to this intriguing but profoundly ambiguous injunction. Philosophers, however, have had surprisingly little to say about either the meaning, the merits, and the practical implications of this neglected moral claim.
This book fills this glaring gap in the literature. Progressive Consequentialism is, first and foremost, a work in moral theory with an aim to carefully disambiguate the progressive constraint and to rigorously explore the semantic content and the normative implications of some of its most promising variants.
Progressive Consequentialism features in the following genres: Ethics and moral philosophy, Social and political philosophy
Progressive Consequentialism is available in Hardback
Progressive Consequentialism was written by Mark Vorobej and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Progressive Consequentialism has 208 pages