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Goods, Assessment of
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[German Version]

The assessment of goods or benefits is often the last step in the formation of ethical judgments, as when the choice of a course of conduct cannot be derived from a general or specific directive for action. It is necessary when one of the available courses of action is not clearly preferable to others, whether because several appear equally preferable, a temporal sequencing of the goods to be achieved by them is impossible, so that other goods (Good) must be abandoned in favor of one, or because every course of action, including doing nothing, involves an …

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Herms, Eilert, “Goods, Assessment of”, in: Religion Past and Present. Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1877-5888_rpp_SIM_09117>
First published online: 2011
First print edition: ISBN: 9789004146662, 2006-2013



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