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Shades of Goodness

Gradability, Demandingness and the Structure of Moral Theories
By:R. Lawlor
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230573574
eText ISBN:9780230239272
Edition:0
Copyright:2009
Format:Page Fidelity

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It is typically thought that the demandingness problem is specifically a problem for consequentialists because of the gradable nature of consequentialist theories. Shades of Goodness argues that most moral theories have a gradable structure and, more significantly, that this is an advantage, rather than a disadvantage, for those theories.