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More on Moral Dilemmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

J. P. Day
Affiliation:
University of Keele

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1992

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References

1 Day, J. P., ‘Moral Dilemmas, Compromise and Compensation’, Philosophy 66, No. 257 (07, 1991). Abbreviated as MDCC.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 See Moral Dilemmas, Gowans, C. W. (ed.) (Oxford University Press, 1987)Google Scholar. Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Moral Dilemmas (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988).Google Scholar

3 See Sinnott-Armstrong, , op. cit., 17.Google Scholar

4 See Beardsley, M. C., Practical Logic (New York: Prentice Hall, 1950), 377384.Google Scholar

5 See Sinnott-Armstrong, , op. cit., 78.Google Scholar

6 The terminology is Ross's. See Ross, W. D., The Right and the Good (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930)Google Scholar; Foundations of Ethics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939).Google Scholar

7 The last judgment is of course highly controversial and many patriotic Frenchmen would have denied it. I assume its truth simply for the argument's sake.

8 Follett, M. P., ‘Constructive Conflict’, Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett, Metcalf, H. C. and Urwick, L. (eds) (London: Management Publications Trust, 1941), 31.Google Scholar

9 See Day, MDCC, 373.Google Scholar

10 Follett, , op. cit., 32.Google Scholar

11 See Little, I. M. D., A Critique of Welfare Economics, 2nd edition (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1957), chs 8, 9.Google Scholar

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16 Aristotle, , Nicomachean Ethics, 1109b 23, 1126b 4Google Scholar. Cp. Ross in Gowans, , op. cit., 1213, 99100Google Scholar, and Urmson, J. O., ‘A Defence of Intuitionism’, Aristotelian Society Proceedings 75, 1975.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

17 Day, MDCC, 372373Google Scholar. Cp. Broad, C. D., Five Types of Ethical Theory (London: Kegan Paul, 1934), 222223.Google Scholar

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20 I am grateful for comments by Timo Airaksinen, Hillel Steiner and participants in a research seminar held at the University of Keele in November 1991. Since this paper was written there has been published Chapman, J. W. (ed.), Compensatory Justice, Nomos, XXXIII (New York: New York Univer sity Press, 1991)Google Scholar. Like Nomos, XXIGoogle Scholar (see MDCC, note 12), it sheds much light on some of the issues discussed here and in MDCC.