Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780367875756 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 210 str.

Christine Straehle

Opis

Vulnerability is an important concern of moral philosophy, political philosophy and many discussions in applied ethics. Yet the concept itself—what it is and why it is morally salient—is under-theorized. The Ethics of Vulnerability　brings together theorists working on conceptualizing vulnerability as an action-guiding principle in these d

Recenzje

"This volume is the best book on vulnerability since Robert Goodin’s now 30-year-old volume. Its applications of the concept of vulnerability in the areas of research on children, the care of the elderly and prospective parents are very useful and innovatively conceived." – Rosemarie Tong, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

O autorze

Christine Straehle is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, Canada