Ethics Matters: Ethical Issues in Pragmatic Perspective

ISBN-13: 9783030520380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 264 str.

Nicholas Rescher

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.

Blurb

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.