Needs and Moral Necessity

ISBN-13: 9780415960359 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 171 str.

Soran Reader

Opis

Needs and Moral Necessity analyses ethics as a practice, explains why we have three moral theory-types, consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics, and argues for a fourth needs-based theory.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. What Ethics Is  3. Ethics as a Practice  4. Meeting Patients’ Needs  5. The Moral Demandingness of Needs  6. Objections  7. Consequentialism  8. Deontology  9. Virtue Ethics

O autorze

Soran Reader is Lecturer in Philosophy at Durham University and is editor of The Philosophy of Need (Cambridge University Press, 2006).