Self-Governance and Cooperation
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 April 2003
- ISBN 9780199256594
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages190 pages
- Size 217x137x10 mm
- Weight 237 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Robert Myers presents an original moral theory which charts a course between the extremes of consequentialism and contractualism, portraying morality not simply as a matter of promoting the overall good but rather as a matter of cooperating in its promotion. This gives him answers to two of the most vexing questions in moral philosophy: how can increasing general welfare and respecting individual rights be equally fundamental features of moral activity, and what gives morality's demands their special character of inescapability?
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Robert Myers presents an original moral theory which charts a course between the extremes of consequentialism and contractualism. He puts forward a radically new case for the existence of both agent-neutral and agent-relative values, and gives an innovative answer to the question how such disparate values can be weighed against each other. Practical judgement is shown to be guided in this by two very different ideals: an ideal of cooperation, which is held to shape the content of morality's demands, and one of self-governance, which is held to determine the nature of reason's requirements. Examination of the ideal of cooperation reveals that principles of impartial beneficence and rights protecting individual freedoms are equally fundamental to morality. Examination of the ideal of self-governance reveals that morality's dictates, though not necessarily overriding, are always in an important sense inescapable. The result is a theory of morality which combines a balanced account of its content with a ringing affirmation of its authority.
Review from previous edition This is a thought provoking book that should appeal to anyone who shares the concerns about reconciling impartial beneficence, prerogatives, and restrictions. Those well-versed with Samuel Scheffler and Thomas Nagel's work will be particularly interested since Myers addresses their ideas at some length ... should appeal to philosophers interested in accounts of reasons for action and links between morality's demands and reason's requirements.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Two Problems in Moral Philosophy
Misgivings about Consequentialism and Contractualism
Cooperating to Promote the Good
Initial Counter-Arguments Supporting Value Monism
Self-Governance and Value Dualism
Conclusion: Implications for the Question of Morality's Authority
References; Index
