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Contents -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- Intuitions -- Some Intuitions of Interest -- Common Patterns -- The Role of Psychology -- Consequences, Consequentialism, and Utilitarianism -- Summary and Outlook -- CHAPTER 2 All the Fish in the Sea -- The Tragedy of the Commons -- Unfairness -- Autonomy -- Wishful Thinking -- Ozone and Freon -- Global Warming -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 3 Benefits and Burdens -- The Utilitarian Approach -- Can Equality Go Too Far? -- Taxation as Theft? -- Elasticity: Taxes to Change Behavior -- Self-destructive Behavior -- Taking Property -- Changing the Rules of the Game

The emphasis on duly in Kant's ethics is widely held to constitute a defect. Marcia W. Baron develops and assesses the criticism, which she sees as comprising two objections: that duty plays too large a role, leaving no room for the supererogatory, and that Kant places too much value on acting from duty. Clearly written and cogently argued, Kantian Ethics Almost without Apology takes on the most philosophically intriguing objections to Kant's ethics and subjects them to a rigorous yet sympathetic assessment