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Title: UTILITARIANISM: VOLUME 26, PART 1
THE AGGREGATION QUESTION
By: Ellen Frankel Paul (Editor), Fred D. Miller Jr. (Editor), Jeffrey Paul (Editor)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0521756324
ISBN 13: 9780521756327
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 27 September, 2010
Series: Social Philosophy and Policy
Pages: 404
Description: Is there adequate justification for employing the concept of an aggregate social good?
Synopsis: Utilitarianism and other aggregationist moral theories view the public interest or the general welfare as an aggregate of individual goods. But critics of these theories question whether there is adequate justification for employing the concept of an aggregate social good. How are we supposed to sum up individual interests? Is it even possible to compare the utilities of different people or to assign values to individual utilities that can be added or subtracted? If not, how is the general good to be aggregated? Critics have also raised concerns about the aggregative approach in ethics - concerns about its implications for distributive justice, individual liberty and democratic institutions. The essays in this volume explore these issues and address related questions. Some of them examine specific objections to aggregation, others analyze the very idea of a social good or social welfare. Other essays discuss the application of aggregative principles to particular problems.
Illustrations: Illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Returns: Returnable
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