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Well-Being as the Object of Moral Consideration

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An adequate moral theory must take (at least) each person into account in some way. Some think that the appropriate way to take an agent into account morally involves a consequentialist form of promoting something about her. Others suggest instead that morality requires a Kantian form of respecting something about an agent. I am interested here in pursuing the former line. When we pursue the broadly consequentialist line we come to this question: what should we promote on the agent's behalf when we are taking her into account morally?

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  • Sobel, David, 1998. "Well-Being as the Object of Moral Consideration," Economics and Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, vol. 14(2), pages 249-281, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:ecnphi:v:14:y:1998:i:02:p:249-281_00
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