Ethics for a Broken World : Imagining Philosophy After Catastrophe.
Imagine living in the future in a world already damaged by humankind, a world where resources are insufficient to meet everyone''s basic needs and where a chaotic climate makes life precarious. Then imagine looking back into the past, back to our own time and assessing the ethics of the ea...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface: Imagining a broken world; Introductory lecture: Philosophy in the age of affluence; Part I: Rights; Lecture 1. Nozick on rights; Lecture 2. Self-ownership; Lecture 3. The Lockean proviso; Lecture 4. Nozick in a broken world; Lecture 5. Nationalism; Part II: Utilitarianism; Lecture 6. Act utilitarianism; Lecture 7. Rule utilitarianism; Lecture 8. Well-being and value; Lecture 9. Mill on liberty; Lecture 10. Utilitarianism and future people; Lecture 11. Utilitarianism in a broken world.
- Part III: The social contractLecture 12. Hobbes and Locke; Lecture 13. Rawls; Lecture 14. Rawls and the future; Lecture 15. Rawls in a broken world; Part IV: Democracy; Lecture 16. Democracy; Lecture 17. Democracy and the future; Reading list; Bibliography; Index.