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- Title
Review Article Reasons Consequentialism.
- Authors
Sachs, Benjamin
- Abstract
Douglas Portmore's recent book, Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein Rationality Meets Morality, is an ambitious, painstaking effort to render the moral requirements of conse-quentialism consistent both with our intuitions and with the requirements of rationality. Portmore argues for a version of consequentialism that requires one to act in accordance with one's reasons for preference or reasons for desire. I raise doubts here as to whether such reasons can explain moral requirements and whether, if they do, it would be of any practical use to know that they do.
- Subjects
COMMONSENSE Consequentialism: Wherein Morality Meets Rationality (Book); PORTMORE, Douglas; CONSEQUENTIALISM (Ethics); REASON; PHILOSOPHY; ENDS &; means
- Publication
Journal of Moral Philosophy, 2013, Vol 10, Issue 5, p671
- ISSN
1740-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/1745-5243-01005006