Unselfishness : the role of the vicarious affects in moral philosophy and social theory /

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rescher, Nicholas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1975]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Altruism.
Ethics.
Social ethics.
Utilitarianism.
Altruism
Ethics
Altruisme.
Morale.
Morale sociale.
Utilitarisme.
ethics (philosophy)
utilitarianism.
social ethics.
PHILOSOPHY / General
Social ethics
Utilitarianism
Ethik
Altruismus
Altruïsme.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The vicarious affects and the modalities of unselfishness: Sympathy as a "moral sentiment"
  • Vicarious affects and moral distance
  • The vicarious affects and unselfishness
  • Ethical legitimacy of the vicarious affects and moral justification of differential treatment
  • Appendix: Sidgwick on benevolence. 2. The workings of the vicarious affects: Participatory transfer
  • the nature of affective diffusion
  • the method of calculation
  • The vicarious affects and strategies of choice. 3. Rationality and the "prisoner's dilemma": The paradoxical aspect of the prisoner's dilemma
  • Alternatives to prudence
  • Some lessons of the prisoner's dilemma
  • The perils of naive benevolence: The saint's dilemma
  • The positive affects and the "social point of view"
  • Aspects of the prisoner's dilemma problem from the angle of internalization. 4.
  • Conflict situations and the social point of view: The idea of an "impartial arbiter's approach" to conflict resolution
  • Possible advantages of arbitration and the social point of view
  • Internalization of the welfare of others as a shift toward the arbitrator's approach
  • Pressures toward the social point of view. 5. Vicarious affects and the critique of utilitarianism: Preliminary observations
  • "Each is to count for one, no one for more than one"
  • "The greatest happiness of the greatest number"
  • The defects of the utilitarian individualism
  • The social aspect. 6. The social rationale of benevolence: The gap between morality and interest
  • Morality and the vicarious affects
  • The conception of an "adequate moral economy"
  • The Hegelian perspective
  • The idealistic aspect
  • Conclusion.

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