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Item Details
Title:
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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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£31.99 |
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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. |
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Illustrations |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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