The Best Effect

The Best Effect
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 330
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ISBN-10 : 9780226829999
ISBN-13 : 0226829995
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Book Synopsis The Best Effect by : Ryan Darr

Download or read book The Best Effect written by Ryan Darr and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For over two centuries, consequentialism has been among the most influential approaches to ethics and public policy in the Anglophone world. It is often seen as the paradigmatic rational and secular ethic. In The Best Effect, Ryan Darr reveals that a consequentialist approach to ethics is not, as is often assumed, self-evidently rational once religious morality is stripped away. Rather, consequentialist morality itself had to be invented. In this new account of the origins of consequentialism, Darr traces the development of this new consequentialist morality, revealing its decidedly theological history. The Best Effect portrays the emergence in the mid-seventeenth century of the consequentialist moral cosmology, a richly theological vision of a world created by a consequentialist Creator, through to its eventual breakdown in the early eighteenth century in the face of a new version of the theological problem of evil. The book concludes with an intervention in contemporary debates about consequentialism in both religious ethics and moral philosophy, arguing for an alternative approach to teleological ethics"--


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