Parfit the perfectionist

• Autores: Roger Scruton
• Localización: Philosophy, ISSN-e 1469-817X, Vol. 89, Nº. 4, 2014, págs. 621-634
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • I summarize and criticize Derek Parfit's impressive attempt to reconcile the Kantian and the Consequentialist approaches to moral thinking, and argue that his �cognitive non-naturalism� fails to do justice to the roots of moral sentiment in personal relations. I outline the destructive effect of �trolley problems� on ethical reasoning, and mount a case for seeing moral reasoning as a consequence of �reactive� attitudes, arising from the attempt to reach a rational consensus in the things that we praise and blame.