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Ethics matters : ethical issues in pragmatic perspective
- Title
- Ethics matters : ethical issues in pragmatic perspective / Nicholas Rescher.
- Author
- Rescher, Nicholas
- Publication
- [London, England] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
- ©2021
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 21-650 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 253 pages : black and white illustrations; 22 cm
- 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." --
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Informational works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-650
- ISBN
- 9783030520359
- 3030520358
- 9783030520366 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1202824787
- Author
- Rescher, Nicholas, author.
- Title
- Ethics matters : ethical issues in pragmatic perspective / Nicholas Rescher.
- Publisher
- [London, England] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249) and index.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9783030520366
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-650