Well-Being as the Object of Moral Consideration

David Sobel

Economics and Philosophy, 1998, vol. 14, issue 2, 249-281

Abstract: An adequate moral theory must take (at least) each person into account in some way. Some think that the appropriate way to take an agent into account morally involves a consequentialist form of promoting something about her. Others suggest instead that morality requires a Kantian form of respecting something about an agent. I am interested here in pursuing the former line. When we pursue the broadly consequentialist line we come to this question: what should we promote on the agent's behalf when we are taking her into account morally?

Date: 1998
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