Against the tyranny of outcomes

• Verfasst von: Hurley, Paul [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Against the tyranny of outcomes
• Verf.angabe: Paul Hurley
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: xvi, 187 Seiten
• Format: 24 cm
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-19-889923-5
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Hurley, Paul: Against the tyranny of outcomes. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024. - 1 online resource.
• Sach-SW: Morale
• Sach-SW: Conséquentialisme
• Sach-SW: ethics (philosophy)
• K10plus-PPN: 1908322888

Abstract

"Outcomes tyrannize over prevailing accounts of ethics, actions, reasons, attitudes, and social practices. The right action promotes the best outcome, the end of every action is an outcome to be promoted, reasons to act are reasons to promote outcomes, and preferences and desires rationalize actions that aim at the outcome of realizing their contents. This book canvasses two sets of seemingly powerful arguments, the first that outcome-centered ethics cannot be wrong, the second that it cannot be right. It proceeds to undermine the arguments that outcome-centered ethics cannot be wrong, in the process providing additional support for the arguments that it cannot be right. The result is a comprehensive argument for rejecting these outcome-centered accounts, stepping outside of this toxic outcome-centered circle. The conclusion points to only a few of the many significant implications of this comprehensive rejection of the tyranny of outcomes, with particular focus upon our democratic and legal practices. It demonstrates that outcome-centered accounts lead agents away from the quest for good reasons of the right kind--for integrated and authentic agency, and towards appeal to the wrong kinds of reasons and to bad reasons of the right kind." --