TY - BOOK AU - Temkin,Larry S. TI - Rethinking the good: moral ideals and the nature of practical reasoning T2 - Oxford ethics series SN - 9780199932214 (ebook) : AV - BJ1031 .T395 2012 U1 - 170 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Good and evil KW - Practical reason N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - In choosing between moral alternatives we typically make calculations of the following kind, using the principle of transitivity: A is better than B; B is better than C; therefore A is better than C. Temkin shows that if we want to continue making plausible judgments, we cannot continue to make these assumptions UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199759446.001.0001 ER -