Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics – serie
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How to Count Animals, more or less
Av Shelly Kagan
Häftad, 2022
323 kr
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Most people agree that animals count morally. But how, exactly, should we take animals into account? According to a prominent position in contemporary philosophical discussions, animals and people have the very same moral status, so in our moral deliberations the otherwise similar interests of …
Being Good in a World of Need
Inbunden, 2022
612 kr
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In a world filled with both enormous wealth and pockets of great devastation, how should the well-off respond to the world's needy? This is the urgent central question of Being Good in a World of Need. Larry S. Temkin, one of the world's foremost ethicists, challenges common assumptions about …
The Robust Demands of the Good
Ethics with Attachment, Virtue, and Respect
Inbunden, 2015
1151 kr
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Some goods that we generate for others, as when we give them attention or help or encouragement, require us to provide that benefit under the actual circumstances where we interact. Other goods that we generate require not just that we actually provide that sort of benefit but that we are also …
Fellow Creatures
Our Obligations to the Other Animals
Inbunden, 2018
420 kr
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Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, she offers an …
Why Worry About Future Generations?
Inbunden, 2018
565 kr
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The things we do today may make life worse for future generations. But why should we care what happens to people who won't be born until after all of us are gone? Some philosophers have treated this as a question about our moral responsibilities, and have argued that we have duties of beneficence …
The Robust Demands of the Good
Ethics with Attachment, Virtue, and Respect
Häftad, 2017
435 kr
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Philip Pettit offers a new insight into moral psychology. He shows that attachments such as love, and certain virtues such as honesty, require not only their characteristic positive behaviours in the actual world (i.e. as things are), but preservation of those characteristic behaviours across a …
Why Does Inequality Matter?
Inbunden, 2018
420 kr
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Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands for greater equality can seem puzzling, because it can be unclear what reason people have for objecting to the difference between what they have and what others have, as opposed simply …
How to Count Animals, more or less
Av Shelly Kagan
Inbunden, 2019
925 kr
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Most people agree that animals count morally, but how exactly should we take animals into account? A prominent stance in contemporary ethical discussions is that animals have the same moral status that people do, and so in moral deliberation the similar interests of animals and people should be …
How to Pool Risks Across Generations
The Case for Collective Pensions
Inbunden, 2023
621 kr
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How to Pool Risks across Generations makes the case for the collective provision of pensions, on fair terms of social cooperation. Through the insurance of a mutual association which extends across society and over multiple generations, we share one another's fates by pooling risks across both …
Being Good in a World of Need
Häftad, 2024
337 kr
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In a world filled with both enormous wealth and pockets of great devastation, how should the well-off respond to the world's needy?This is the urgent central question of Being Good in a World of Need. Larry S. Temkin, one of the world's foremost ethicists, challenges common assumptions about …
Messy Morality
The Challenge of Politics
Inbunden, 2008
763 kr
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Tony Coady explores the challenges that morality poses to politics. He confronts the complex intellectual tradition known as realism, which seems to deny any relevance of morality to politics, especially international politics. He argues that, although realism has many serious faults, it has …
Choosing Children
Genes, Disability, and Design
Häftad, 2008
569 kr
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Progress in genetic and reproductive technology now offers us the possibility of choosing what kinds of children we do and don't have. Should we welcome this power, or should we fear its implications? There is no ethical question more urgent than this: we may be at a turning-point in the history of …
Killing in War
Av Jeff McMahan
Inbunden, 2009
1107 kr
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Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that conditions in war make no difference to what …
Beyond Humanity?
The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement
Inbunden, 2011
1537 kr
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Biotechnologies already on the horizon will enable us to be smarter, have better memories, be stronger and quicker, have more stamina, live longer, be more resistant to diseases, and enjoy richer emotional lives. To some of us, these prospects are heartening; to others, they are dreadful. In Beyond …
Messy Morality
The Challenge of Politics
Häftad, 2010
487 kr
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Tony Coady explores the challenges that morality poses to politics. He confronts the complex intellectual tradition known as realism, which seems to deny any relevance of morality to politics, especially international politics. He argues that, although realism has many serious faults, it has …
Killing in War
Av Jeff McMahan
Häftad, 2011
358 kr
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Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that conditions in war make no difference to what …
Ethics for Enemies
Terror, Torture, and War
Av F. M. Kamm
Inbunden, 2011
1537 kr
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Ethics for Enemies comprises three original philosophical essays on torture, terrorism, and war. F. M. Kamm deploys ethical theory in her challenging new treatments of these most controversial practical issues. First she considers the nature of torture and the various occasions on which it could …
Unfit for the Future
The Need for Moral Enhancement
Av Ingmar Persson, Julian Savulescu
Inbunden, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
1133 kr
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Unfit for the Future argues that the future of our species depends on our urgently finding ways to bring about radical enhancement of the moral aspects of our own human nature. We have rewritten our own moral agenda by the drastic changes we have made to the conditions of life on earth. Advances in …
Beyond Humanity?
The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement
Häftad, 2013
504 kr
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Biotechnologies already on the horizon will enable us to be smarter, have better memories, be stronger and quicker, have more stamina, live longer, be more resistant to diseases, and enjoy richer emotional lives. To some of us, these prospects are heartening; to others, they are dreadful. In Beyond …
Ethics for Enemies
Terror, Torture, and War
Av F. M. Kamm, F. M. Kamm
Häftad, 2013
536 kr
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Ethics for Enemies comprises three original philosophical essays on torture, terrorism, and war. F. M. Kamm deploys ethical theory in her challenging new treatments of these most controversial practical issues. First she considers the nature of torture and the various occasions on which it could …
