Ethics Matters

Ethical Issues in Pragmatic Perspective
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-52038-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 253 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 346 g

This book covers a varied spectrum of ethical topics, ranging from the fundamental considerations regarding ethical values, to the rationale of obligation, and the ethical management of societal and personal affairs. Nicholas Rescher shows how fundamental general principles underpin the pragmatic stance we can appropriately take on questions of specific ethical detail. His work on these issues is pervaded by a certain pragmatic point of view. As the popular dictum has it, we humans come this way but once, with just a single lifetime available, to each one of us. Rescher argues that it is a matter of rational self-interest and ethical obligation to use this opportunity for doing something towards making the world a better home for ourselves and our posterity.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rescher, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: PERSONHOOD



Chapter 2: THE ETHICAL IMPORT OF VALUE ATTRIBUTION



Chapter 3: THE RATIONAL VALIDATION OF ETHICAL VALUES



Chapter 4: RATIONALITY AND MORAL OBLIGATION



Chapter 5: ON COMPROMISE AND OBLIGATION



Chapter 6: MORAL LUCK



Chapter 7: FAIRNESS PROBLEMS



Chapter 8: ON THE ETHICS OF INACTION



Chapter 9: ANCESTOR WORSHIP?



Chapter 10: DISTANT POSTERITY

(A PHILOSOPHICAL GLANCE ALONG TIME’S CORRIDOR)



Chapter 11: IS THERE A STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IN ETHICS?



Chapter 12: AN ETHICAL PARADOX



Chapter 13: COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY



Chapter 14: ALLOCATING SCIENTIFIC CREDIT



Chapter 15: MORALITY IN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS



Chapter 16: PROBLEMS OF BETTERMENT



Chapter 17: SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY IN THEOLOGICAL ETHICS



Chapter 18: PERFECTIBILITY PROBLEMS

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Rescher is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. In a productive research career extending over six decades, he has well over one hundred books to his credit. Fourteen books about Rescher’s philosophy have been published in five languages.