Shades of Goodness: Gradability, Demandingness and the Structure of Moral Theories

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.

Author: R. Lawlor
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 05/01/2009
Pages: 245
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230573574

About the Author
ROB LAWLOR is a research fellow at the Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied CETL (Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning), University of Leeds, UK.