10 Moral ParadoxesISBN: 978-1-4051-6087-2
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160 pages
June 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Figures viii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 Fortunate Misfortune 11
2 The Paradox of Beneficial Retirement 23
3 Two Paradoxes about Justice and the Severity of Punishment 33
4 Blackmail: The Solution 42
5 The Paradox of Non-Punishment 50
6 On Not Being Sorry about the Morally Bad 59
7 Choice-Egalitarianism and the Paradox of the Baseline 67
8 Morality and Moral Worth 77
9 The Paradox of Moral Complaint 90
10 Preferring Not to Have Been Born 100
11 A Meta-Paradox: Are Paradoxes Bad? 113
12 Reflections on Moral Paradox 122
Postscript: The Future and Moral Paradox 134
References 138
Index 142