false <![CDATA[Utilitarianism: For and Against]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174148318m/365649.jpg 365649 2 Two essays on utilitarianism, written from opposite points of view, by J. J. C. Smart and Bernard Williams. In the first part of the book Professor Smart advocates a modern and sophisticated version of classical utilitarianism; he tries to formulate a consistent and persuasive elaboration of the doctrine that the rightness and wrongness of actions is determined solely by their consequences, and in particular their consequences for the sum total of human happiness. This is a revised version of Professor Smart&#8217;s famous essay &#8216;an outline of a system of utilitarian ethics&#8217;, first published in 1961 but long unobtainable. In Part II Bernard Williams offers a sustained and vigorous critique of utilitarian assumptions, arguments and ideals. He finds inadequate the theory of action implied by utilitarianism, and he argues that utilitarianism fails to engage at a serious level with the real problems of moral and political philosophy, and fails to make sense of notions such as integrity, or even human happiness itself. Both authors are agreed on utilitarianism&#8217;s importance: it cuts across a number of different philosophical disputes and combines a systematic account of mata-ethical problems with a distinctive and substantive moral stand. It thus is, or involves, philosophy in both the traditional and the narrower, professional sense of the word, and is a key topic (often the first topic) in introductory philosophy courses. This book should also be of interest to welfare economists, political scientists and decision-theorists. 355677 1 1 1973 Utilitarianism: For and Against total:26|5:2|4:14|3:7|2:2|1:1| 26 92 38 5 365649 052109822X 9780521098229 26 5 Utilitarianism: For and Against 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174148318m/365649.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/365649.Utilitarianism_For_and_Against 3 1 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 20:27:54 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 06:07:10 -0700 2007
Williams loathes utilitarianism, which gives his attack some verve, but his attack seems totally inconclusive. 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