Moral demands in nonideal theory / Liam B. Murphy.
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford ethics seriesPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 168 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780198024132
- 0198024134
- 170/.42 22
- BJ1474 .M87 2003eb
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Originally published: 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-164) and index.
Print version record.
1. Introduction; 2. Over-demandingness, Alienation, and Confinement; 3. Doubts about Over-demandingness; 4. Moderate Beneficence?; 5. Responsibility in Nonideal Theory: The Compliance Condition; 6. The Distribution of the Effects of Compliance; 7. The Collective Principle of Beneficence; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W.
Recognizing that we live not in an ideal world (where obligations are shared equally) but in an actual and nonideal world, Murphy says that the real problem with utilitarianism is that it makes unfair demands on people who comply with it when most others do not.
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