On Larry Temkin’s Rethinking the Good

Journal of Moral Philosophy 12 (4):414-427 (2015)
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This essay offers a critique of Larry Temkin’s seminal new book, Rethinking the Good, at the heart of which is the highly counterintuitive claim that all things considered judgments are not transitive. I evaluate Temkin’s claims through the lens of social choice theory, pursue some of its larger implications and applications, and conclude with a very general worry having to do with the intimate connection between transitivity and logical consistency, namely whether, if Temkin is right, this would not bring all moral reasoning to an abrupt halt.

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Sources of transitivity.Daniel Muñoz - 2023 - Economics and Philosophy 39 (2):285-306.
Rethinking Rethinking the Good.Larry S. Temkin - 2012 - Journal of Moral Philosophy 12 (4):479-538.

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