The Value of Humanity

ISBN-13: 9780198832645 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 176 str.

L. Nandi Theunissen

Opis

L. Nandi Theunissen offers an original and provocative account of the value of humanity. Human beings have value just as anything of value has value: because we are capable of being of value to someone-in the first place, to ourselves. And this explains the key forms of ethical responsiveness that we owe to one another.

Recenzje

How should we understand goodness, so that we don't just account for the good book and the good action, but also for the special value of persons? This book makes the novel and ingenious proposal that the value of humanity is an integrated dimension of value theory in general. According to The Value of Humanity, the relation of benefit explains goodness in all cases.

O autorze

L. Nandi Theunissen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.