Why Happiness Includes Fairness: An Essay in Soft Utilitarian Ethics
Author(s): Hugo A. Meynell (Author)
- Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
- Publication Date: January 1, 2013
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0779907205
- ISBN-13: 9780779907205
Book Description
This is a study of ethical principles and theories. Dr. Meynell defines the good in ethical matters as depending in large part, although not entirely, on how an action effects the happiness of and the fairness to sentient beings. He calls this “soft utilitarianism”.
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Why Happiness Includes Fairness: An Essay in Soft Utilitarian Ethics
Author(s): Hugo A. Meynell (Author), Ernest Mccullough (Foreword)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
- Language: English
- Print length: 218 pages
- ISBN-10: 0773443363
- ISBN-13: 9780773443365
Book Description
This study of ethical principles and theories is the author's attempt to define the good as depending in large part, although not entirely, on how an act effects the happiness of and fairness to sentient beings, He deals with relativism, subjectivism and scepticism.
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