Moral Aggregation

Moral Aggregation
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9780199933686
ISBN-13 : 0199933685
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Book Synopsis Moral Aggregation by : Iwao Hirose

Download or read book Moral Aggregation written by Iwao Hirose and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book elucidates the theoretical structure and scope of interpersonal and intra-personal aggregation--a trade-off between benefits to a group of individuals and losses to another group of individuals--and defends a form of aggregation -- formal aggregation -- that resolves a variety of outstanding problems arising from the conventional understanding of aggregation, including the Number Problem concerning the moral relevance of the number of individuals.


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