Cargando…
Reading Onora O'Neill.
Onora O'Neill is one of the foremost moral philosophers writing today. Her work on ethics and bioethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of Kant is extremely influential. Her landmark Reith Lectures on trust did much to establish the subject not only on the philosophical and political a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Notes; Part 1: Kant on action and reason; 1. Moral worth and moral rightness, maxims and actions; Notes; 2. Constructivist practical reasoning and objectivity; Realism and constructivism; O'Neill's constructivist account of practical reasoning; Substantive normative commitments in O'Neill's constructivist account; A brief comparison with Korsgaard's constructivism; The need for realist foundations; Notes; Bibliography; 3. Varieties of constructivism; Introduction.
- O'Neill's Kantian projects: aims, limits, anddevelopmentPoints of agreement and general objections to Rawls' constructivisms; Arbitrary authority and restricted domains: a problem for Rawls?; Further objections: are specific features of Rawls' theories arbitrary?; Reliance on instrumental reason, desires, and idealizations; Reliance on ideas drawn from our culture; Reliance on stipulated criteria of 'reasonable'; Reliance on 'an overlapping consensus'; Concluding note about remaining questions; Notes; Bibliography; 4. Hope as prudence: practical faith in Kant's political thinking.
- IntroductionPractical faith: religious and secular; Hope: practical and transcendent; Prudence as practical faith; The transcendence of practical faith; Notes; Bibliography; Part 2: Agency, consent and autonomy; 5. Informed consent and referential opacity; The "standard" model of informed consent; Referential opacity; Referential opacity
- narrow and broad; Is referential opacity simply an informational problem?; Two ways of putting consent in its place: with and without Kant; Conclusion; Note; Bibliography; 6. Respect for autonomy in medical ethics; Respecting a patient's wishes.
- The doctor's obligation and the patient's choiceNotes; 7. Independence, dependence, and the liberal subject; Independence as an ideal of character in interpersonalrelationships; Independence in liberal theory; Notes; Part 3: Some practical questions; 8. Agents of global justice; I: O'Neill on the agents of justice; II: Question 1: International institutions as agentsof justice?; III: Question 2: transnational companies as primary agents of justice?; IV: Question 3: 'the unjustly treated' as primary agentsof justice?; V: Towards an analysis of the normative character of agents of justice.
- VI: Concluding remarksNotes; 9. Procreative rights and procreative duties; Note; Bibliography; Part 4: Trustworthiness and trust; 10. What is trust?; Notes; 11. Distrusting the trustworthy; Basic and rich trustworthiness; Signaling; When signaling fails; Failures in rich trustworthiness; Affect and uptake; Remedy; Notes; Bibliography; 12. Trust in institutions; Introduction; Complexities of trust; Making sense of the gulf between avowal and action; The requirements of vigilance with respect to institutions; Agency, individual and corporate; Adversarial institutions; The role of the media.