Consequences Evaluation and Practical Rationality

Author: Amartya Sen
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Since the late 1970s, Amartya Sen has developed a complex and sophisticated consequentialist evaluation system based on his welfareist economics and social choice theory. This system overcomes the major flaws of classical utilitarianism, incorporates the theoretical strengths of classical deontology, and incorporates several important themes of virtue ethics into consideration. As a result, Sen has become a prominent representative of the third major ethical school—consequentialism—among the three main traditions in contemporary ethics: deontology, virtue ethics, and consequentialism. This book is a selected collection of Sen's classic papers in this field, edited independently by Chinese scholars following this line of thought.