Goodness and Justice

In Goodness and Justice Joseph Mendola develops a unified moral theory that defends the hedonism of classical utilitarianism while evading utilitarianism''s familiar difficulties by adopting two modifications. His theory incorporates a developed form of consequentialism. When as is common someone is engaged in conflicting group acts it requires that one perform one''s role in that group act that is most beneficent. The theory also holds that overall value is distribution-sensitive ceding maximum weight to the well-being of the worst-off sections of sentient lives. It is properly congruent with commonsense intuition and required by the true metaphysics of value by the unconstituted natural good found in our world.