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Decision Theory and Social Ethics: Issues in Social Choice

Decision Theory and Social Ethics: Issues in Social Choice

Leinfellner, W.
Gottinger, H. W.

Paperback

Series: Theory and Decision Library, Book 17

General Sociology

ISBN10: 9027709378
ISBN13: 9789027709370
Publisher: Springer
Published: Sep 30 1978
Pages: 351
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Ethics, as one of the most respectable disciplines of philosophy, has undergone a drastic and revolutionary change in recent time. There are three main trends of this development. The first trend can be described as a tendency towards a rigorous formal and analytical language. This means simply that ethics has created beside its own formalized set- theoretical language a variety of new formalized, logical and mathemati- cal methods and concepts. Thus ethics has become a formalized meta- or epidiscipline which is going to replace the traditional concepts, principles and ethical methods in the realm of social sciences. It is clear that a formalized form of ethics can be used more easily in social, economic and political theories if there are ethical conflicts to be solved. This first trend can be regarded as a conditio sine qua non for application in, and imposing ethical solutions on, social scientific theories. The second trend may be characterized as an association- or unification-tendency of a formalized and analytical ethics with decision theory. Decision theory as a new interdiscipline of social sciences is actually an assemblage of a variety of subtheories such as value-utility theory, game theory, collective decision theory, etc. Harsanyi has called this complex of subtheories a general theory of human behavior. Analytical or formal ethics is actually using this general theory of human behavior as a vehicle simply because this theory deals from the beginning with conflict solution, i. e.

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