The Priority and Posteriority of Right

In this article I articulate two pairs of theses about the relationship between the right and the good and I sketch an account of morality that systematically vindicates all four theses, despite a nearly universal consensus that they are not all true. In the first half I elucidate and motivate the t...

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Veröffentlicht in:Theoria (Lund, Sweden) Sweden), 2015-09, Vol.81 (3), p.222-248
1. Verfasser: Garthoff, Jon
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:In this article I articulate two pairs of theses about the relationship between the right and the good and I sketch an account of morality that systematically vindicates all four theses, despite a nearly universal consensus that they are not all true. In the first half I elucidate and motivate the theses and explain why leading ethical theorists maintain that at least one of them is false; in the second half I present the outlines of an account of the relationship between the right and the good satisfying all four theses.
ISSN:0040-5825
1755-2567
DOI:10.1111/theo.12065