Ethics matters : ethical issues in pragmatic perspective / Nicholas Rescher.
Rescher, Nicholas, author.
2021
BJ1031 .R47 2021eb
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Title
Ethics matters : ethical issues in pragmatic perspective / Nicholas Rescher.
Author
Rescher, Nicholas, author.
ISBN
9783030520366 (electronic book)
3030520366 (electronic book)
9783030520359 (hardcover)
3030520358 (hardcover)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52036-6
Published
[Cham, Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 253 pages) : black and white illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-52036-6 doi
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BJ1031 .R47 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
170
Summary
"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."--Publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Personhood
The ethical import of value attribution
The rational validation of ethical values
Rationality and moral obligation
On compromise and obligation
Moral luck
Fairness problems
On the ethics of inaction
Ancestor worship?
Distant posterity (A philosophical glance along time's corridor)
Is there a statute of limitations in ethics?
An ethical paradox
Collective responsibility
Allocating scientific credit
Morality in government and politics
Problems of betterment
Sovereign immunity in theological ethics
Perfectibility problems.

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