Michael Slote Research Articles

Weighing Goods: Equality, Uncertainty and Time

Philosophical BooksVolume 34, Issue 1 p. 39-41 Weighing Goods: Equality, Uncertainty and Time MICHAEL SLOTE, MICHAEL SLOTE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLANDSearch for more papers by this author MICHAEL SLOTE, MICHAEL SLOTE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLANDSearch for more papers by this author First published: January 1993 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0149.1993.tb00749.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume34, Issue1January 1993Pages 39-41 RelatedInformation

Elbow-room for consequentialists

C ONSEQUENTIALISM tells us to do that action of those available to us which will have the best consequences. Ties are rare. So in almost every situation, such a theory will tell us that one and only one action is morally acceptable. Consequentialism is frequently criticized on this score (see [3], [6], [9] and [10]). Michael Slote, for example, objects that consequentialism deprives us of moral autonomy ([9], p. 23). But he doesn't do much to explain what he means. Seana Shiffrin, however, provides an account of the sort of moral autonomy Slote needs and she uses it to defend Slote's objection [7]. In this paper, I show where Shiffrin's arguments go wrong and I argue that consequentialism does not deprive us of any moral autonomy worth having. Shiffrin tells us that the moral autonomy Slote needs

The End of an Era

“Greed,” says Gordon Gekko, “Greed is good.” At this point in the movie Wall Street he is acting as the spokesman for the American Dream, so he naturally emphasizes financial greed. Yet he is willing to include, “Greed in all of its forms,” including greed for life and greed for happiness. Since greed almost always means trying to grab too much, even when what is sought is undeniably worth having, he must believe that MORE is ALWAYS better. Michael Slote's counterpoint: moderation is generally preferable.

The End of an Era

“Greed,” says Gordon Gekko, “Greed is good.” At this point in the movie Wall Street he is acting as the spokesman for the American Dream, so he naturally emphasizes financial greed. Yet he is willing to include, “Greed in all of its forms,” including greed for life and greed for happiness. Since greed almost always means trying to grab too much, even when what is sought is undeniably worth having, he must believe that MORE is ALWAYS better. Michael Slote's counterpoint: moderation is generally preferable.

Beyond Optimizing: A Study of Rational Choice. By Michael Slote. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. 192p. $22.50.

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Common-Sense Morality and Consequentialism. Michael Slote

<i>Common-Sense Morality and Consequentialism</i>. Michael Slote

The Need for More than Justice

In recent decades in North American social and moral philosophy, alongside the development and discussion of widely influential theories of justice, taken as Rawls takes it as the ‘first virtue of social institutions,’ there has been a counter-movement gathering strength, one coming from some interesting sources. For some of the most outspoken of the diverse group who have in a variety of ways been challenging the assumed supremacy of justice among the moral and social virtues are members of those sections of society whom one might have expected to be especially aware of the supreme importance of justice, namely blacks and women. Those who have only recently won recognition of their equal rights, who have only recently seen the correction or partial correction of long-standing racist and sexist injustices to their race and sex, are among the philosophers now suggesting that justice is only one virtue among many, and one that may need the presence of the others in order to deliver its own undenied value. Among these philosophers of the philosophical counterculture, as it were - but an increasingly large counterculture - I include Alasdair MacIntyre, Michael Stocker, Lawrence Blum, Michael Slote, Laurence Thomas, Claudia Card, Alison Jaggar, Susan Wolf and a whole group of men and women, myself included, who have been influenced by the writings of Harvard educational psychologist Carol Gilligan, whose book In a Different Voice (Harvard 1982; hereafter D.V.) caused a considerable stir both in the popular press and, more slowly, in the philosophical journals.

On Admirable Immorality

Previous articleNext article No AccessOn Admirable ImmoralityMarcia BaronMarcia Baron Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Ethics Volume 96, Number 3Apr., 1986 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/292775 Views: 41Total views on this site Citations: 11Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1986 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Emily Brandt, Alejandro Rodriguez, Emily Nwakpuda, Karabi Bezboruah Redefining Morally Conscious Decision-Making for the Public Sector: A Theoretical Analysis, Administration & Society 40 (Jul 2022): 009539972211051.https://doi.org/10.1177/00953997221105103James Harold , The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism ( 2022).https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpac049Muel Kaptein The Moral Duty to Love One’s Stakeholders, Journal of Business Ethics 105 (Jul 2021).https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-021-04897-yZhen Li Immorality and Transgressive Art: An Argument for Immoralism in the Philosophy of Art, The Philosophical Quarterly 71, no.33 (Oct 2020): 481–501.https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqaa069ALFRED ARCHER, BENJAMIN MATHESON When Artists Fall: Honoring and Admiring the Immoral, Journal of the American Philosophical Association 5, no.22 (Apr 2019): 246–265.https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2019.9Alfred Archer Are We Obliged to Enhance for Moral Perfection?, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine 43, no.55 (Sep 2018): 490–505.https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhy017David Lamond, Osvaldo R. Agatiello Corruption not an end, Management Decision 48, no.1010 (Nov 2010): 1456–1468.https://doi.org/10.1108/00251741011090270Christopher Michaelson Moral Luck and Business Ethics, Journal of Business Ethics 83, no.44 (Jan 2008): 773–787.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-008-9664-9J. David Velleman Self to Self, 121 (Jul 2009).https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511498862Ishtiyaque Haji Deontic Morality and Control, 14 (Jul 2009).https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511498794John Kekes On There Being Some Limits to Morality, Social Philosophy and Policy 9, no.22 (Jan 2009): 63–80.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052500001400

Goods and Virtues by Michael Slote

Goods and Virtues by Michael Slote

Satisficing Consequentialism

Satisficing Consequentialism Get access Michael Slote, Michael Slote Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Philip Pettit Philip Pettit Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, Volume 58, Issue 1, 1 July 1984, Pages 139–176, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristoteliansupp/58.1.139 Published: 30 July 2015

Is Virtue Possible?

Journal Article Is virtue possible? Get access Michael Slote Michael Slote Trinity CollegeDublin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Analysis, Volume 42, Issue 2, March 1982, Pages 70–76, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/42.2.70 Published: 01 March 1982

'Even if'

Journal Article ‘Even if’ Get access Allen Hazen, Allen Hazen Trinity College Dublin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Slote Michael Slote Trinity College Dublin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Analysis, Volume 39, Issue 1, January 1979, Pages 35–38, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/39.1.35 Published: 01 January 1979