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Reasons, Patterns, and Cooperation

Reasons, Patterns, and Cooperation

Woodard, Christopher

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory, Book 11

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ISBN10: 0415958490
ISBN13: 9780415958493
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 1 2008
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book is about fundamental questions in normative ethics. It begins with the idea that we often respond to ethical theories according to how principled or pragmatic they are. It clarifies this contrast and then uses it to shed light on old debates in ethics, such as debates about the rival merits of consequentialist and deontological views. Using the idea that principled views seem most appealing in dilemmas of acquiescence, it goes on to develop a novel theory of pattern-based reasons. These are reasons to play one's part in some larger pattern of action because of the goodness or rightness of that pattern. Existing accounts of pattern-based reasons usually assume that such reasons can exist only in cooperative contexts.

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