Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-194) and index.
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Existential choices and dislocations -- Construals, valencing -- The relevance of construal and valencing to good choice -- The importance of character -- Personal morality and its social implications -- Steps to theory -- The bases of ethical theory -- The need for a moral order -- The logic of consequentialism -- Some difficulties of consequentialism -- The evolution of ethical theories -- A modulated case for the primacy of value.
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Kupperman looks at what enters into ethical judgement and choice. Interpretation of a case and of what the options are is always a factor, as is a sense of the possible values at stake. Intuitions also enter in but are unreliable. A moral judgement is putatively part of a moral order in a society that any reasonable person would accept.