The Good and the Right
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Michael Zimmerman, Professor and Philosophy Pre-Law Concentration Advisor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: T. M. Scanlon has revived a venerable tradition according to which something’s being
good consists in its being such that there is a reason to respond positively towards it.
He has presented novel arguments for this thesis. In this article, I first develop some
refinements of the thesis with a view to focusing on intrinsic value in particular, then
discuss the relation between the thesis and consequentialism, then critically examine
Scanlon’s arguments for the thesis, and finally turn to the question whether we should
reject the thesis on the grounds that, when there is a reason to respond positively towards
something, this is so because the thing in question is good. Two appendices follow. In the
first, I discuss whether it is good to do right. In the second, I discuss whether an act’s
being wrong provides a reason not to do it.
The Good and the Right
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Utilitas, 19 (2007): 326-353
- Language: English
- Date: 2007
- Keywords
- T.M. Scanlon, good, consequentialism, right