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Cooperating to Promote the Good

  • Robert H. Myers
From the journal Analyse & Kritik

Abstract

I argue that the aim of moral activity is to cooperate with others in the promotion of value, where the concept of cooperation denotes not a formal ideal to be given content through reasoning but a substantive way of engaging with others. I show how this approach to ethical theory can provide better accounts of many of our moral convictions than consequentialist or contractualists approaches can, and defend it against the objection that, by downplaying moral reasoning, it robs itself of any explanatory force.

Published Online: 2016-01-12
Published in Print: 2011-05-01

© 2011 by Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart

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