Impartially Optimizing Consequentialism (IOC) requires agents to act so as to bring about the best outcome, as judged by a preference ordering which is impartial among the needs and interests of all persons. IOC may seem to be only... more
Impartially Optimizing Consequentialism (IOC) requires agents to act so as to bring about the best outcome, as judged by a preference ordering which is impartial among the needs and interests of all persons. IOC may seem to be only rational response to the recognition that one is only one person among many others with equal intrinsic moral status. A person who adopts a less impartial deontological alternative to IOC may seem to fail to take seriously the fact that other persons matter in the same way that she takes herself to matter. This paper examines this ‘seductive appeal’ of IOC. It argues that IOC is not the only rational way to recognize the fact that each person matters. It presents an alternative conception of how to recognize the status of other persons as beingswho-matter, an alternative that has Kantian rather than consequentialist implications.
Published as a book chapter in: The Philosopher's Child: Critical Essays in the Western Tradition. Susan Turner and Gareth Matthews. (Eds.). Reprinted as "Rawls's Neglected Childhood: Reflections on the Original... more
Published as a book chapter in: The Philosopher's Child: Critical Essays in the Western Tradition. Susan Turner and Gareth Matthews. (Eds.). Reprinted as "Rawls's Neglected Childhood: Reflections on the Original Position, Stability, and the Child's Sense of Justice" in The Idea of Political Liberalism: Essays on Rawls. Clark Wolf and Victoria Davion. (Eds.). The book is not available online here. If you are affiliated with The University of Western Ontario, please use the Shared Library Catalogue's Advanced Search to check whether the book ...
... begin allocating more of her remaining or newly acquired resources toward the promotion of her ... 2 [1995]: 28999) suggest subtler ways to limit beneficence, but they are not sufficiently ... Thomas E. Hill, Jr., Dignity and... more
... begin allocating more of her remaining or newly acquired resources toward the promotion of her ... 2 [1995]: 28999) suggest subtler ways to limit beneficence, but they are not sufficiently ... Thomas E. Hill, Jr., Dignity and Practical Reason in Kant's Moral Theory (Ithaca, NY: Cornell ...
Rawls's attitude toward children displays a rather ironic sort of neglect. Though he spends several chapters of A Theory of Justice exploring the empirical details of the development of moral reasoning in childhood, he pays almost no... more
Rawls's attitude toward children displays a rather ironic sort of neglect. Though he spends several chapters of A Theory of Justice exploring the empirical details of the development of moral reasoning in childhood, he pays almost no attention to the moral status of children. This neglect of questions of children s rights and justice within families in a 586-page book that aspires to articulate a complete theory of distributive justice, and in Political Liberalism, the 371-page sequel that was meant to correct and further develop the initial theory, is ...
Definition d'un fondement philosophique pour la pensee commune et la pensee juridique du statut moral de l'enfant et d'une theorie philosophique pour justifier nos convictions morales et la politique publique en matiere de... more
Definition d'un fondement philosophique pour la pensee commune et la pensee juridique du statut moral de l'enfant et d'une theorie philosophique pour justifier nos convictions morales et la politique publique en matiere de parente, d'adoption et d'education. Reconciliant la these de la consideration et du traitement egaux de l'enfant et l'adulte, d'une part, avec la these d'un droit parental limite, d'autre part, l'A. developpe une approche de l'enfant fondee sur ses droits et sur le respect de sa personne
