Smilansky 10 Moral Paradoxes

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69586-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten, E-Book

Presenting ten diverse and original moral paradoxes, this cuttingedge work of philosophical ethics makes a focused, concrete casefor the centrality of paradoxes within morality.
* Explores what these paradoxes can teach us about morality andthe human condition
* Considers a broad range of subjects, from familiar topics torarely posed questions, among them "Fortunate Misfortune","Beneficial Retirement" and "Preferring Not To Have Been Born"
* Asks whether the existence of moral paradox is a good or a badthing
* Presents analytic moral philosophy in a provocative, engagingand entertaining way; posing new questions, proposing possiblesolutions, and challenging the reader to wrestle with the paradoxesthemselves

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smilansky, Saul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures viii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 Fortunate Misfortune 11
2 The Paradox of Beneficial Retirement 23
3 Two Paradoxes about Justice and the Severity of Punishment 33
4 Blackmail: The Solution 42
5 The Paradox of Non-Punishment 50
6 On Not Being Sorry about the Morally Bad 59
7 Choice-Egalitarianism and the Paradox of the Baseline 67
8 Morality and Moral Worth 77
9 The Paradox of Moral Complaint 90
10 Preferring Not to Have Been Born 100
11 A Meta-Paradox: Are Paradoxes Bad? 113
12 Reflections on Moral Paradox 122
Postscript: The Future and Moral Paradox 134
References 138
Index 142

Über Autor(innen)

Saul Smilansky is a professor in the department of philosophy at the University of Haifa, Israel. He is the author of the widely acclaimed book, Free Will and Illusion (2000) and has published articles in many of the leading philosophical journals.