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Title: Goodness and Advice by Judith Jarvis Thomson, Amy Gutmann ISBN: 0-691-08673-7 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: a peculiar book
Comment: There is a rather peculiar book. Thompson's main goal is to criticize consequentialism but it appears that most consequentialists don't even accept the consequentialism that is her target, namely some kind of view that says we should promote *goodness simpliciter*, NOT goodness for sentient beings, goodness for persons, other states that are intrinsically good or whatever. Thompson has an odd target and even if she refutes it, it's not clear what difference it makes to most other consequentialist theories. (Thompson's view seems like it could be classified as a consequentialism anyway).

Four people give comments on Thompson's main text but two of them are't even philosophers (I think they are from English departments!??). Nussbaum's comments interesting though.

Some of Thompson's articles on these topics are a bit better than this book. I'd recommend checking them out first.