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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      February 2010
      March 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511624681
      9780521497060
      9780521038744
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511624681
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.474kg, 320 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.417kg, 320 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy: General Interest, Ethics, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    Philosophy: General Interest, Ethics, Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    The principal aim of this book is to develop and defend an analysis of the concept of moral obligation. The analysis is neutral regarding competing substantive theories of obligation, whether consequentialist or deontological in character. What it seeks to do is generate solutions to a range of philosophical problems concerning obligation and its application. Amongst these problems are deontic paradoxes, the supersession of obligation, conditional obligation, prima facie obligation, actualism and possibilism, dilemmas, supererogation, and cooperation. By virtue of its normative neutrality, the analysis provides a theoretical framework within which competing theories of obligation can be developed and assessed. This study is a major contribution to metaethics that will be of particular interest to all philosophers concerned with normative ethical theory.

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    "...an impressive, careful and helpful book....Zimmerman offers delightful and stimulating brief forays into the territory that he passes by." David Sobel, Ethics

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