Review of The Rejection of Consequentialism: A Philosophical Investigation of the Considerations Underlying Rival Moral Conceptions by Samuel Scheffler
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
7-1985
ISSN
1539-297X
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
Samuel Scheffler holds that the good of an individual is determined from her unique "personal point of view." By contrast, he says, consequentialism assumes that there is a distinct, "impersonal" point of view for determining "overall good." Scheffler limits his attention to act consequentialism, which holds that we must always secure as much overall good as possible -- that any failure to do so, on any occasion, is morally wrong.
Recommended Citation
David B. Lyons,
Review of The Rejection of Consequentialism: A Philosophical Investigation of the Considerations Underlying Rival Moral Conceptions by Samuel Scheffler
,
in
95
Ethics
936
(1985).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/2342
