Feasibility in optimizing ethics

Geoffrey Brennan

doi:10.1017/S0265052513000150

Feasibility in optimizing ethics

Geoffrey Brennan^*

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Abstract

Justice is not the only value that calls for (appropriately balanced) implementation: other principles, sometimes competing with justice, must also be variously pursued and honored. And the facts help to decide the balance of due deference to competing principles: the facts constitute the feasible set that determines the optimal point on a set of fact-independent indifference curves whose axes display packages of different extents to which competing principles are implemented. G. A. Cohen ï¿½Facts and Principlesï¿½1

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	314-329
Number of pages	16
Journal	Social Philosophy and Policy
Volume	30
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052513000150
Publication status	Published - Dec 2013

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