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19 produkter
Taking Life
Three Theories on the Ethics of Killing
Inbunden, 2015
2627 kr
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When and why is it right to kill? When and why is it wrong? Torbjörn Tännsjö examines three theories on the ethics of killing in this book: deontology, a libertarian moral rights theory, and utilitarianism. The implications of each theory are worked out for different kinds of killing: …
Taking Life
Three Theories on the Ethics of Killing
Häftad, 2015
711 kr
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When and why is it right to kill? When and why is it wrong? Torbjörn Tännsjö examines three theories on the ethics of killing in this book: deontology, a libertarian moral rights theory, and utilitarianism. The implications of each theory are worked out for different kinds of killing: …
Taking Life
Three Theories on the Ethics of Killing
E-bok, 2015
495 kr
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When and why is it right to kill? When and why is it wrong? Torbjörn Tännsjö examines three theories on the ethics of killing in this book: deontology, a libertarian moral rights theory, and utilitarianism. The implications of each theory are worked out for different kinds of killing: …
Taking Life
Three Theories on the Ethics of Killing
E-bok, 2015
495 kr
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When and why is it right to kill? When and why is it wrong? Torbjörn Tännsjö examines three theories on the ethics of killing in this book: deontology, a libertarian moral rights theory, and utilitarianism. The implications of each theory are worked out for different kinds of killing: …
Setting Health-Care Priorities
What Ethical Theories Tell Us
E-bok, 2019
1045 kr
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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 …
Coercive Care
Ethics of Choice in Health & Medicine
Inbunden, 1999
704 kr
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Coercive Care asks probing and challenging questions regarding the use of coercion in health care and the social services. The book combines philosophical analysis with comparative studies of social policy and law in a large number of industrialized countries.
Genetic Technology and Sport
Ethical Questions
Av Torbjorn Tannsjo, Claudio Tamburrini
E-bok, 2005
738 kr
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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 …
Genetic Technology and Sport
Ethical Questions
Av Torbjorn Tannsjo, Claudio Tamburrini
E-bok, 2005
762 kr
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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 …
Coercive Care
Ethics of Choice in Health & Medicine
E-bok, 2002
446 kr
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Coercive Care asks probing and challenging questions regarding the use of coercion in health care and the social services. The book combines philosophical analysis with comparative studies of social policy and law in a large number of industrialized countries.
Coercive Care
Ethics of Choice in Health & Medicine
E-bok, 2002
446 kr
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Coercive Care asks probing and challenging questions regarding the use of coercion in health care and the social services. The book combines philosophical analysis with comparative studies of social policy and law in a large number of industrialized countries.
Values in Sport
Elitism, Nationalism, Gender Equality and the Scientific Manufacturing of Winners
Av Torbjorn Tannsjo, Claudio Tamburrini
E-bok, 2002
1059 kr
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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 …
Values in Sport
Elitism, Nationalism, Gender Equality and the Scientific Manufacturing of Winners
Av Torbjorn Tannsjo, Claudio Tamburrini
E-bok, 2002
1091 kr
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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 …
Coercive Care
Ethics of Choice in Health & Medicine
Häftad, 2015
382 kr
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Coercive Care asks probing and challenging questions regarding the use of coercion in health care and the social services. The book combines philosophical analysis with comparative studies of social policy and law in a large number of industrialized countries.
Ethics of Sports Medicine
Av Torbjorn Tannsjo, Claudio Tamburrini
E-bok, 2013
866 kr
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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 …
Ethics of Sports Medicine
Av Torbjorn Tannsjo, Claudio Tamburrini
E-bok, 2013
847 kr
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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 …
Repugnant Conclusion
Essays on Population Ethics
Av Torbjorn Tannsjo, Jesper Ryberg
E-bok, 2007
1459 kr
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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 …
From Reasons to Norms
On the Basic Question in Ethics
E-bok, 2009
1459 kr
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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). When we pass moral judgements, what kind of claims are we then making? I speak of this as the semantic metaethical question. a re there moral facts, to be discovered by …
From Despotism to Democracy
How a World Government Can Save Humanity
E-bok, 2023
1141 kr
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This book is about how best to respond to existential global threats posed by war and global heating. The stakes have become existential. A strong claim in the book is that we need a world state to save humanity. The book sheds new light on why this is so. The present author has long advocated …
Moral Realism
Inbunden, 1990
1188 kr
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Is moral knowledge possible? In this book, Torbjorn Tannsjo provides a concise introduction to modern discussions about this question and offers a strong and controversial defense of the theory of moral realism. The author clearly and concisely defines and critically assesses such alternative …
