Morality by degrees : reasons without demands / Alastair Norcross.

In Morality by Degrees, Alastair Norcross articulates and defends a radical new approach to ethical theory. Consequentialist theories of the right connect the rightness and wrongness (and related notions) of actions with the intrinsic goodness and badness of states of affairs consequential on those...

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Main Author: Norcross, Alastair (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
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