Indirect Consequentialism, Friendship, and the Problem of Alienation  

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Cocking, Dean ; Oakley, Justin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 106 no. 1 (Oct. 1995), page 86-111.
Topik: Indirect Consequentialism; Friendship; and the Problem of Alienation

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE44.3 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The move to indirect consequentialism has become a standard maneuver in response to those who criticize consequentialism as alienating us from ourselves and from those who are special to us. One version of this criticism claims that consequentialism has problems with friendship because of the purposes which a consequentialist agent would have. According to this version, a consequentialist agent would aim at maximizing the good, but to act with such an aim would preclude one from having goods like friendship, since achieving friendship seems to require, in certain contexts, that one does not aim at promoting the abstract good itself but rather that one focuses on the good of the friend himself. Another, perhaps more influential, version of this criticism holds that consequentialism has a problem with friendship because of the motives which a consequentialist agent would act from a adesire to maximize the good, but one who took maximization of the good as her motive in engaging in personal relationships would thereby be prevented from having genuine friendship, because genuine friendship conceptually requires that one act from motives other than the desire to maximize the good.

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