Against the Tyranny of Outcomes - Paul Hurley

Against the Tyranny of Outcomes

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Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2024
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-889923-5 (ISBN)
87,25 inkl. MwSt
The outcome-centered accounts that dominate in philosophy claim to clarify our understanding of ourselves, but they instead lead us away from what we most value. The arguments here show the distortion to our self-understanding wrought by the tyranny of outcomes, and overthrow it, allowing greater authenticity in our political and legal practices.
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 tyranny of outcomes in ethics is given its appearance of legitimacy by ethical arguments that trade on conflations obscured from view by appeal to non-ethical accounts that are in the grips of these very same conflations. Rooting out the mistaken grounding for outcome-centered ethics involves rooting out the outcome-centered accounts of value, attitudes, reasons, and actions upon which the case for outcome-centered ethics depends, along with the considerations that have been offered to support them. The ethical and intuitive arguments for outcome-centered ethics are implausible, the outcome-centered accounts of attitudes, reasons and actions that form the cornerstone of the non-ethical argument shoring up outcome-centered ethics are implausible, and the considerations offered to bolster such outcome-centered accounts either themselves turn on the same equivocations that undermine the ethical arguments, or depend upon highly controversial positions in metaphysics and the theory of action. 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.

Paul Hurley is the Sexton Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, where he has been awarded the Huntoon and Senior Huntoon Teaching Awards. Paul has published articles in ethics and meta-ethics in Ethics, Mind, Philosophical Studies, Philosophers' Imprint, Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Analytic Philosophy, The Journal of Ethics, and The Journal of Moral Philosophy. His recent work focuses on the central debate in normative ethics between consequentialists and their critics, and upon clarifying certain deep structural problems with the framing of this debate. An earlier book length contribution to this debate, Beyond Consequentialism, was published by Oxford University Press.

Preface
Acknowledgements
1: Introduction
2: The Ethical Consequentializing Argument
3: The Collapse of Other Intuitive and Ethical Arguments for Consequentialism
4: The Non-Ethical Argument for the Tyranny of Outcomes in Ethics
5: Against the Non-Ethical Tyranny of Outcomes: The Initial Case
6: The Inadequacy of Supplemental Grounds for the Non-Ethical Argument
7: Selected Implications
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 145 x 220 mm
Gewicht 384 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10 0-19-889923-8 / 0198899238
ISBN-13 978-0-19-889923-5 / 9780198899235
Zustand Neuware
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