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Kant and Applied Ethics : the Uses and Limits of Kant's Practical Philosophy.

Kant and Applied Ethics makes an important contribution to Kant scholarship, illuminating the vital moral parameters of key ethical debates. Offers a critical analysis of Kant's ethics, interrogating the theoretical bases of his theory and evaluating their strengths and weaknessesExamines the c...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Altman, Matthew C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chichester : Wiley, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Note on Sources and Key to Abbreviations; Introduction: Why Kant Now; Part I: Applying Kant's Ethics; 1 Animal Suffering and Moral Character; Kant's Logocentrism; Kant's Justification for Our Duties (with Regard) to Nonrational Animals; Implications of Kant's View for Our Treatment of Animals; Kantians Revising Kant: Wood and Korsgaard; Problems with Wood and Korsgaard; Kant's Response to Wolff: The Difference between Animal Choice and Moral Agency; Evaluating Pain and Pleasure; Kant's Practical Appeal; Final Thoughts for the Nonanthropocentrist. 
505 8 |a 2 Kant's Strategic Importance for Environmental EthicsNatural Purposiveness in the Critique of Judgment; Furthering Nature's Purposes: The Stewardship Model; The Value of Nature for Humanity; Considering Future Generations; Beauty as a Symbol of Morality; Preserving the Sublime; Developing Kantian Virtues; Norton's Convergence Hypothesis and Light's Practical Pluralism; The Appeal to Common Sense; Kant's Place in the Debate over Environmental Policy; 3 Moral and Legal Arguments for Universal Health Care; The Moral Duty to Assist Others in Their Health Care. 
505 8 |a Health Care Should Be Provided by the GovernmentThe Duty to Provide Truly Universal Health Care; Rejecting the Liberal Model; 4 The Scope of Patient Autonomy; Physician-Assisted Suicide; Refusing Life-Saving Medical Treatment; Organ Donation: Opt-in or Opt-out?; Autonomy and the Body; Part II: Kantian Arguments against Kant's Conclusions; 5 Subjecting Ourselves to Capital Punishment; The Difference between Morality and Legality; Retribution and the Death Penalty; Consenting to Capital Punishment; Determining the "Inner Wickedness" of the Accused; The Fallibility of Justice. 
505 8 |a Capital Punishment Cannot Be Categorically Demanded of UsA Moral Assessment of the Supposed Duty to Kill; Do These Objections Rule Out All Punishments?; Whose Dignity Is at Stake?; 6 Same-Sex Marriage as a Means to Mutual Respect; Sex Is Morally Problematic; Sex Is (Conditionally) Good; Exchanging Ourselves: Marriage in the Moralphilosophie Collins; Kant and Political Liberalism; Transforming Ourselves into Husbands and Wives: Marriage in the Metaphysics of Morals; Is Something Wrong Because It Is Unnatural?; Pleasure as an End of Nature; Marital Equality as a Criterion of Legitimacy. 
505 8 |a How the Same-Sex Marriage Debate Should ProceedPart III: Limitations of Kant's Theory; 7 Consent, Mail-Order Brides, and the Marriage Contract; The Purpose of Marriage; Consent and Coercion; Mail-Order Marriages as the Kantian Ideal; Treating Mail-Order Brides Merely as Means; Attempts to Criticize Mail-Order Marriages from a Kantian Perspective; Are Mail-Order Brides Coerced?; Questioning the a priori Basis of Kant's Ethics; Notes toward a Genealogy of Kantianism; 8 Individual Maxims and Social Justice; How Kant Answers Hegel's Formalism Charge. 
500 |a Basic Principles versus Particular Duties: Kant and Rawls. 
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