The Point of View of the Universe
Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics
2014
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Livre de Peter Singer et Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek · 1 juin 2014 (Royaume-Uni)
Genres : Essai, Philosophie, Version originaleWhat does the idea of taking 'the point of view of the universe' tell us about ethics? The great nineteenth-century utilitarian Henry Sidgwick used this metaphor to present what he took to be a self-evident moral truth: the good of one individual is of no more importance than the good of any other. Ethical judgments, he held, are objective truths that we can know by reason. The ethical axioms he took to be self-evident provide a foundation for utilitarianism. He supplements this foundation with... Voir plus
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