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Hur bör vi handla? Vad kräver moralen av oss? Grundbok i normativ etik introducerar och diskuterar, med många exempel, de viktigaste försöken att på ett systematisk sätt besvara dessa frågor. Utilitarism, pliktetik, rättighetsteorier, dygdetik och djupekologi blir analyserade och jämförda med varandra, både när det gäller styrkor och svagheter. Framställningen är direkt och tillgänglig även utan filosofiska förkunskaper, författaren klargör sina egna ståndpunkter samtidigt som läsaren dras in i diskussionen.
I denna tredje upplaga är boken till stor del omskriven, utökad och uppdaterad med de senaste årens diskussion.
Torbjörn Tännsjö är professor emeritus i Praktisk filosofi vid Stockholms universitet, och i Medicinsk etik vid Karolinska Institutet. Han har en stor vetenskaplig produktion men är också Sveriges kanske flitigaste debattör i etiska frågor. Särskilt när det gäller medicinsk etik har han med sina rättframma och ofta kontroversiella ställningstaganden spelat en huvudroll i det svenska offentliga samtalet.
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Om inget görs, kanske mänskligheten snart har utplånat sig själv. Vare sig det gäller den globala upphettningen, krig och konflikter eller de ständigt växande klyftorna mellan fattig och rik krävs en radikal förändring – så att vi hamnar på rätt kurs och får en värld där alla kan leva ett drägligt liv i frihet. Filosofen Torbjörn Tännsjö har ett skarpt förslag för att mänskligheten ska få bukt på alla sina problem: upprättandet av en världsregering.
Det är endast med en global församling som vi kan bryta oss loss från det rådande dödläget och vända utvecklingen, menar Tännsjö. Med inspiration från upplysningens idéer om folkstyre och den upplysta despoten argumenterar Tännsjö för att vi inte har några bättre alternativ än att upprätta en demokratiskt orienterad världsregering som kan tillgodose alla invånare på jordens bästa.
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With much of the world's population facing restricted access to adequate medical care, how to allocate scarce health-care resources is a pressing question for governments, hospitals, and individuals. How do we decide where funding for health-care programs should go? Tannsjo here approaches the subject from a philosophical perspective, balancing theoretical treatments of distributive ethics with real-world examples of how health-care is administered around the world today.Tannsjo begins by laying out several popular ethical theories-utilitarianism, which recommends maximizing the best overall outcome; egalitarianism, which recommends smoothing out the differences between people as much as possible; and the maximin/leximin theory, which urges people to give absolute priority to those who are worst off. Tannsjo shows how, in abstract thought experiments, these theories come into conflict with each other and reveal puzzling implications. He goes on to argue, however, that when we consider health-care in the real-world, these theories all agree on a central point: in a well-ordered welfare state, more resources should be directed to the care and cure of people suffering from mental illness, and less to the marginal life extension of elderly patients. Tannsjo's book thus recommends a shift in spending to increase fairness and overall utility-while also recognizing that this kind of dispassionate suggestion, with its purely economic foundation, is unlikely to take hold in policy. Tannsjo's analysis is a case study in how ethical theories can sometimes lead to rational conclusions and recommendations that we are not prepared to accept.
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Will the genetic design of athletes destroy sport … or will it lead to a new and extraordinary age of athletic achievement? Exploring a new territory in sport and ethics, this edited collection contains some of the best new writing that has emerged from the debates concerning the uses of genetic technologies to improve sport performance. Issues covered include:* gene technology and sports ethics* genetic testing in sports* gene technology and the sporting ethos* gene technology and gender equality in sport.This cutting-edge text is the first on the subject to analyze gender specific questions that arise from genetically modified sport and is likely to provoke further debate in the world of sport and bio-ethics.Contributors include Lincoln Allison, Ruth Chadwick, Arne Ljungqvist, Andy Miah, Christian Munthe, Bengt Saltin, Angela Schnieder and many more.
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Will the genetic design of athletes destroy sport … or will it lead to a new and extraordinary age of athletic achievement? Exploring a new territory in sport and ethics, this edited collection contains some of the best new writing that has emerged from the debates concerning the uses of genetic technologies to improve sport performance. Issues covered include:* gene technology and sports ethics* genetic testing in sports* gene technology and the sporting ethos* gene technology and gender equality in sport.This cutting-edge text is the first on the subject to analyze gender specific questions that arise from genetically modified sport and is likely to provoke further debate in the world of sport and bio-ethics.Contributors include Lincoln Allison, Ruth Chadwick, Arne Ljungqvist, Andy Miah, Christian Munthe, Bengt Saltin, Angela Schnieder and many more.
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The book aims to establish a critical dialogue between sports ethicists and bioethicists across the range of sporting disciplines at elite level. It will address questions such as:are the increasingly intrusive testing methods of elite sports compatible with the right to autonomy and privacy granted to patients in general medicine?could there be a moral obligation to correct injustices produced by the genetic lottery?how should the goals of sports medicine be viewed from the perspective of rationing scarce health care resources?This book was published as a special issue in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.
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The book aims to establish a critical dialogue between sports ethicists and bioethicists across the range of sporting disciplines at elite level. It will address questions such as:are the increasingly intrusive testing methods of elite sports compatible with the right to autonomy and privacy granted to patients in general medicine?could there be a moral obligation to correct injustices produced by the genetic lottery?how should the goals of sports medicine be viewed from the perspective of rationing scarce health care resources?This book was published as a special issue in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.
Values in Sport
Elitism, Nationalism, Gender Equality and the Scientific Manufacturing of Winners
Inbunden, Engelska, 2000
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How will sport keep pace with current scientific and biological advances?Is the possibility of the 'bionic athlete' that far away and is this notion as bad as it might first appear?Is our fascination with sport winners fascistoid? Questions such as these and many others are posed and examined by the contributors to this volume. Some are sceptical of future developments in sport and demand radical reforms to halt progress, others are more optimistic and propose that sport should adapt to new advances just as other realms of the cultural sphere have to.Some of the topics examined here, such as the genetic engineering of athletes, and the significance of the public's fascination with sport winners, are being discussed for the first time, whilst others such as sex segregation, nationalism and doping are being revisited and reintroduced onto the agenda after a period of suggestive silence.This book provides the reader with a deep insight into the moral and ethical value we place on sport in today's society. Challenging and demanding, its contributors urge us to think again about current sports practices and the future of sport as a cultural phenomenon.
Values in Sport
Elitism, Nationalism, Gender Equality and the Scientific Manufacturing of Winners
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
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How will sport keep pace with current scientific and biological advances?Is the possibility of the 'bionic athlete' that far away and is this notion as bad as it might first appear?Is our fascination with sport winners fascistoid? Questions such as these and many others are posed and examined by the contributors to this volume. Some are sceptical of future developments in sport and demand radical reforms to halt progress, others are more optimistic and propose that sport should adapt to new advances just as other realms of the cultural sphere have to.Some of the topics examined here, such as the genetic engineering of athletes, and the significance of the public's fascination with sport winners, are being discussed for the first time, whilst others such as sex segregation, nationalism and doping are being revisited and reintroduced onto the agenda after a period of suggestive silence.This book provides the reader with a deep insight into the moral and ethical value we place on sport in today's society. Challenging and demanding, its contributors urge us to think again about current sports practices and the future of sport as a cultural phenomenon.
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Is world government the answer to pressing global issues such as war, global injustices and environmental problems? Torbjörn Tännsjö presents the case for this idea.The notion of a sovereign world government has been defended in the past by philosophers such as Bertrand Russell and A.C. Ewing, but has been eclipsed by less radical ideas to do with peaceful cooperation between sovereign states or, at most, through systems of shared sovereignty. Tännsjö argues that such solutions cannot be effective; moreover he argues, in response to philosophers such as Kant and Rawls, that not only is a world government necessary if we want to solve pressing global problems, it is desirable in its own right.Short, simple to read, and focusing on the key arguments, Global Democracy is intended for anyone who wants to start to think about political solutions to global problems, putting them into a perspective that deserves to be taken seriously.The author's royalties on sales of this book are being donated to Oxfam.
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How can we find true or reasonable moral principles to live our everyday lives by? Torbjörn Tännsjö presents 7 radically different moral theories - utilitarianism, egoism, deontological ethics, the ethics of rights, virtue ethics, feminist ethics, environmental or ecological ethics - each of which attempts to provide the ultimate answer to the question of what we ought to do and why. He carefully describes each theory, showing how it works in practice using the ‘trolley problem’ thought experiments, critically assessing it and putting it into its historical perspective. This third edition contains a new section on population ethics in the chapter on utilitarianism, discusses the impact of recent findings in social psychology on virtue ethics and includes new, clearer applications of the trolley problem.
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Uses thought-experiments like the trolley problem to test ethical theoriesMoral questions about what we ought to do and why appear in every part of life. Is it morally acceptable to eat meat? Take flights? Should you be doing something to combat racism, sexism and xenophobia? This textbook introduces you to the most important and influential normative ethical theories that help us navigate the moral maze of modern life: normative ethics, utilitarianism, egoism, deontological ethics, the ethics of rights, virtue ethics, particularism and ecological ethics. Torbjörn Tännsjö carefully describes each theory, putting them into their historical contexts and applying them to contemporary debates. He offers arguments for and against, with a special focus on the counterarguments and the best attempts to meet them.
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Uses thought-experiments like the trolley problem to test ethical theoriesMoral questions about what we ought to do and why appear in every part of life. Is it morally acceptable to eat meat? Take flights? Should you be doing something to combat racism, sexism and xenophobia? This textbook introduces you to the most important and influential normative ethical theories that help us navigate the moral maze of modern life: normative ethics, utilitarianism, egoism, deontological ethics, the ethics of rights, virtue ethics, particularism and ecological ethics. Torbjörn Tännsjö carefully describes each theory, putting them into their historical contexts and applying them to contemporary debates. He offers arguments for and against, with a special focus on the counterarguments and the best attempts to meet them.
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The intention behind this anthology is to continue and deepen the discussion about the sedation of dying patients. Those who have contributed constitute a mixture of distinguished bioethicists and doctors and nurses with experience of terminal sedation, some of them in favour of, and others in strong opposition to, voluntary euthanasia. They give their view on terminal sedation by answering questions such as: "Is terminal sedation euthanasia in disguise?", "Should terminal sedation be a part of standard palliative care?", "Should terminal sedation be provided at the patient's request?" This is the first book devoted exclusively to this subject. It does not give the final verdict, but it does contain strong defences by very competent thinkers of the most important and influential positions. It has been published in the hope that it will provoke further thought and discussion. This volume is of interest to students, teachers and professionals working in palliative medicine and medical ethics.
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Most people (including moral philosophers), when faced with the fact that some of their cherished moral views lead up to the Repugnant Conclusion, feel that they have to revise their moral outlook. However, it is a moot question as to how this should be done. It is not an easy thing to say how one should avoid the Repugnant Conclusion, without having to face even more serious implications from one's basic moral outlook. Several such attempts are presented in this volume. This is the first volume devoted entirely to the cardinal problem of modern population ethics, known as 'The Repugnant Conclusion'.This book is a must for (moral) philosophers with an interest in population ethics.
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Metaethics is the inquiry into the nature of morality (or ethics, I use the words ‘morality’, ‘morals’, and ‘ethics’ as synonyms).
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The intention behind this anthology is to continue and deepen the discussion about the sedation of dying patients. Those who have contributed constitute a mixture of distinguished bioethicists and doctors and nurses with experience of terminal sedation, some of them in favour of, and others in strong opposition to, voluntary euthanasia. They give their view on terminal sedation by answering questions such as: "Is terminal sedation euthanasia in disguise?", "Should terminal sedation be a part of standard palliative care?", "Should terminal sedation be provided at the patient's request?" This is the first book devoted exclusively to this subject. It does not give the final verdict, but it does contain strong defences by very competent thinkers of the most important and influential positions. It has been published in the hope that it will provoke further thought and discussion. This volume is of interest to students, teachers and professionals working in palliative medicine and medical ethics.
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Most people (including moral philosophers), when faced with the fact that some of their cherished moral views lead up to the Repugnant Conclusion, feel that they have to revise their moral outlook. However, it is a moot question as to how this should be done. It is not an easy thing to say how one should avoid the Repugnant Conclusion, without having to face even more serious implications from one's basic moral outlook. Several such attempts are presented in this volume. This is the first volume devoted entirely to the cardinal problem of modern population ethics, known as 'The Repugnant Conclusion'.This book is a must for (moral) philosophers with an interest in population ethics.
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Ofta utbrister vi då vi ser en svekfull eller våldsam handling, att vi inte kan förstå den. Men är det så? Tesen i denna bok är att vi kan förstå mer än vi vill och mer än vi tror. Att förstå vad någon gör är att uppfatta det som rationellt, åtminstone i ljuset av vad den handlande tror och önskar. Genom att förstå tycker vi att handlingen kommer obehagligt nära oss. Vi fruktar att vi själva skulle ha kunnat utföra den och slår tanken ifrån oss genom att kalla den obegriplig. I andra fall kan vi verkligen inte förstå, men behöver hjälp av psykologisk forskning, som kommit fram till att det ofta är slumpen eller situationen som bestämmer om vi handlar rätt eller fel. Tron på att det finns genuint goda eller dåliga människor är ogrundad en skrämmande tanke, men viktig om vi vill skapa ett gott samhälle, snarare än goda människor.
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Kan filosofin trösta den som tänker med förtvivlan på att hon skall dö? Torbjörn Tännsjö diskuterar några förslag till tröst som filosofer velat erbjuda oss. Några av dem underkänner han såsom föreställningar om ett liv efter döden eller tanken att livet är så förfärligt att det är bra att slippa leva. Filosofiska reflektioner om tiden framstår som mera lovande, åtminstone för den som framförallt är rädd att man förintas genom döden: det är möjligt att dö utan att förintas. Men alla som ogillar döden bekymras inte av förintelse. De hungrar helt enkelt efter mer liv för egen del även om döden inte innebär att de utplånas. Den inställningen är egoistisk, menar Tännsjö, och om man tänker noga efter bör man kunna frigöra sig ifrån den. Till sist kvarstår emellertid en död som i sanning är förfärlig, om författaren har rätt (och berömda filosofer som Georg Henrik von Wright har fel), nämligen värmedöden, det definitiva slutet på allt kännande liv i universum. Författaren bekymrar sig verkligen över detta slutgiltiga utslocknande, men han konstaterar samtidigt att det nog inte är den människor i allmänhet fruktar när de vänder sig till filosofin för att få tröst inför döden. Boken är rikt illustrerad av Cecilia Torudd.
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Medan revolutionen dröjde skildrar vänstern i Nacka och dess politiska kamp under hundra år - genom storstrejk, världskrig, partisplittringar, kalla krigsår, 68-uppsving fram till dagens borgerliga dominans. Det storslagna visionerna om ett annat samhälle finns där från början, liksom det idoga lokala arbetet - för daghem, sjukhus och bättre kommunikationer, krav som vänstern ställde långt innan de blev populära också bland andra partier. Medan man var upptagen av att införa en socialism - som aldrig ville infinna sig - lyckades man i någon mån med något annat, mer begränsat, att hjälpa till att lindra de värsta plågorna som en ohämmad kapitalism gav upphov till. Men det är inte bara vänstern som haft en skev syn på vänstern. Det gäller också den politiska och polisiära ledningen i Sverige som under lång tid demoniserade, övervakade eller förföljde vänsteranhängare. I arbetet med denna bok har Torbjörn Tännsjö fått tillgång till Säpomaterial som visar att de vardagliga trakasserierna i Nacka var mycket omfattande. Den som hade fel politisk uppfattning kunde bli av med både bostad och jobb. Inget möte var för obetydligt för att undgå spaning från Säpo. Ett slags östtysk situation präglade i detta hänseende Nacka - och förmodligen hela Sverige. Torbjörn Tännsjö är författare, debattör och professor i praktisk filosofi vid Stockholms universitet. Hans senaste bok är Global Democracy: the Case for a World Government (Edinburgh University Press 2008). Torbjörn Tännsjö var med och bildade vänsterns blåsorkester i Nacka 1976.
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