Ethics Matters: Ethical Issues in Pragmatic Perspective 1st Edition

Ethics Matters: Ethical Issues in Pragmatic Perspective 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030520359,3030520358,9783030520366, 3030520366

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3030520366
• ISBN-13: 9783030520366
• Author: Nicholas Rescher

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.

Table contents:

1. Personhood
2. The Ethical Import of Value Attribution
3. The Rational Validation of Ethical Values
4. Rationality and Moral Obligation
5. On Compromise and Obligation
6. Moral Luck
7. Fairness Problems
8. On the Ethics of Inaction
9. Ancestor Worship?
10. Distant Posterity (A Philosophical Glance Along Time’s Corridor)
11. Is There a Statute of Limitations in Ethics?
12. An Ethical Paradox
13. Collective Responsibility
14. Allocating Scientific Credit
15. Morality in Government and Politics
16. Problems of Betterment
17. Sovereign Immunity in Theological Ethics
18. Perfectibility Problems

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