Rethinking the Value of Humanity

ISBN-13: 9780197539361 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 456 str.

Recenzje

This book presents major authors addressing a central topic in ethics. The essays range creatively over the value of persons, love and respect, dignity and moral standing, reasons and rights, consent and sovereignty, and a multitude of philosophers important for these topics. These rich and insightful essaysDLmany contributing significantly to the history of ethicsDLilluminate Kant, as well as earlier figures and later authors as different as Nietzsche and Gandhi.

O autorze

Sarah Buss is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. She is the author of articles on autonomy, moral responsibility, practical rationality, respect for persons, and various issues in ethics, and co-editor of The Contours of Agency: Essays on Themes from Harry Frankfurt (2001). Nandi Theunissen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. She works on foundational topics in ethics, with a focus on the nature of value, and is the author of The Value of Humanity (OUP, 2020), as well as essays on Kant's moral philosophy, regress arguments, moral realism, and the nature of well-being.