Stick Together and Come Back Home: Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity

Stick Together and Come Back Home: Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity
ISBN-10
0520288580
ISBN-13
9780520288584
Category
Social Science
Pages
238
Language
English
Published
2018-01-23
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Patrick Lopez-Aguado

Description

"The distinction between the consequences of an act and the act itself is supposed to define the fight between consequentialism and deontological moralities. This book, though sympathetic to consequentialism, aims less at taking sides in that debate than at clarifying the terms in which it is conducted. It aims to help the reader to think more clearly about some aspects of human conduct--especially the workings of the 'by'-locution, and some distinctions between making and allowing, between act and upshot, and between foreseeing and intending (the doctrine of double effect). It argues that moral philosophy would go better if the concept of 'the act itself' were dropped from its repertoire. Book Keywords: action, allowing, consequences, consequentialism, deontological ethics, double effect, ethics, intention."--Provided by publisher.

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