A Theory of the Good and the Right
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23176565 |
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| Authors | Richard B Brandt (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 830 |
| Publication date | 1981-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | A theory of the good and the right, Richard B Brandt, 1979 |
| Venue | Michigan Law Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-2234 • E-ISSN: 1939-8557 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1288311 |
| OpenAlex | W2090052903 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
What would any rational person believe to be worth wanting or working for? Viewed from the standpoint of ethics and empirical psychology, how would such a person define and explain the morally right and the just?And what system of morals would rational people select as the best for the society? Essential to what is important in traditional philosophical inquiries, these questions and others are pursued in A Theory of the Good and the Right, Richard B. Brandt's now classic work, based on his Oxford lectures.Using a contemporary psychological theory of action and of motivation, Brandt argues that rational people would choose a utilitarian moral code that the purpose of living should be to strive for the greatest good for the largest number of people. He discusses the concept of welfare, the prospects for the interpersonal comparison and measurement of utility, the implications of the relevant form of rule utilitarianism for the theory of distributive justice, and the possibilities of conflict between utilitarian moral codes and the dictates of self-interest.
Action (physics) · Distributive justice · Economic Justice · Economics · Epistemology · Interpersonal communication · Law and economics · Political science · Positive economics · Sociology · Utilitarianism · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology
Over-Demandingness Objections and Supererogation
Rawlsian Constructivism in Moral Theory
Introducing Transformative Technologies into Democratic Societies
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Intuitional Epistemology in Ethics
Recent work on reflective equilibrium and method in ethics
Equilíbrio reflexivo amplo e a revisibilidade das crenças morais
The Relationship Between the Good and the Right in the Context of Chinese Philosophy
Desire Satisfactionism and the Problem of Irrelevant Desires
Pleasure, Desire and Oppositeness
The Eligibility of Rule Utilitarianism
Could Morality Have a Source
Moral Concepts
The Return of Moral Fictionalism
Is Reflective Equilibrium Enough
Affect and moral development
Public goods and government action
Experimental philosophical bioethics and normative inference
Expressivism, Moral Fallibility, and the Approved Change Strategy
Universal Principle of Right
Kant on Feelings, Sensations and the Gap Between Rationality and Morality
What purpose does equality of opportunity serve
Rawls’ Reflective Equilibrium as a Method of Justifying Moral Beliefs
If You Love Me Keep My Commandments”
Ethics in practice
The badness of pain
Alienation, Deprivation, and the Well-being of Persons
On Three Alleged Theories of Rational Behavior
Critical Review of Rawls's Political Liberalism
Welfare, Happiness, and Pleasure
Hedonic Tone and the Heterogeneity of Pleasure
The Utilitarian Ethics of R. B. Brandt
Scales for Scope
Can Consequentialism Cover Everything
Scarre on Evil Pleasures
Headaches, Lives and Value
Rethinking Hare's Analysis of Moral Thinking
Reasons Internalism and the Problem of Depression
Subjectivism without Idealization and Adaptive Preferences
Zero discounting can compensate future generations for climate damage
Deformed Desires and Informed Desire Tests
Moral and citizenship educational goals in values education
Rethinking Nudge
Empiricism, ethics and orthodox economic theory
Normative reasons and the possibility of motivation
In Dispraise of Justice
On the Relationship between Political Philosophy and Empirical Sciences
Does Widespread Lack Undermine the Socially Perceived Necessities Approach to Defining Poverty? Evidence from South Africa
All Time Preferences
Whole Life Satisfaction Concepts of Happiness
Varieties of epistemic instrumentalism
Caring about caring
Supererogation and sequence
Humanization, democracy, and political education
Reflective Equilibrium, Judgments of Coherence, and Judgments of Beauty
Subjective and Objective Well-Being in Relation to Economic Inputs
Biases in the quantitative measurement of values for public decisions
When Does Deliberation Begin? Internal Reflection versus Public Discussion in Deliberative Democracy
Do Animals Have an Interest in Liberty
Emotion East and West
Happiness and Pleasure 1
Reply to Blackburn, Carson, Hill, and Railton
On Being Happy or Unhappy
An Analysis of Pleasure Vis-a-Vis Pain
The Good Life
An honest look at hybrid theories of pleasure
Misinformation, subjectivism, and the rational criticizability of desire
Moral norms
The Problem of Interpersonal Comparisons of Pleasure and Pain
Taking Student Responsibility Seriously
Hare's Utilitarianism and the Free-Rider Problem
Williams and Kant on Integrity
The Normative Case Study
The moral psychology handbook
Ethics and Values
Communitarian Approaches to the Economy
Human Flourishing Versus Desire Satisfaction
Self-Efficacy Beliefs as Shapers of Children's Aspirations and Career Trajectories
The reduction of sensory pleasure to desire
Reasonable Self-Interest
Brandt's new defense of rule utilitarianism
Need-Based Justice from the Perspective of Philosophy
Public Goods and Government Action
The Meta-Justification of Reflective Equilibrium
Autonomy, Want Satisfaction, and the Justification of Liberal Freedoms
Interpersonal comparisons with preferences and desires
Health Care Needs and Distributive Justice
Solidarity and Social Moral Rules
The Problem of the Criterion and Coherence Methods in Ethics
Some Forms and Limits of Consequentialism
A Preference-Based Theory of Well-Being and a Rule-Utilitarian Theory of Morality
Moral Disagreement and Moral Relativism
Sweatshops, Choice, and Exploitation
Well-Being, Adaptation and Human Limitations
A theory of prudential values and a rule utilitarian theory of morality
Rawls's A Theory of Justice
Choosing between choice models of ethics
Moral Accountability and Social Norms
The Ethics of Organizational Politics
The Concept of a Society
| Highly cited | No |
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