Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 594 g
Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 594 g
Reihe: Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
ISBN: 978-1-138-69163-6
Verlag: Routledge
Most philosophers and political scientists readily admit that Thomas Hobbes is a significant figure in the history of political thought. His theory was, arguably, one of the first to provide a justification for political legitimacy from the perspective of each individual subject. Many excellent books and articles have examined the justification and structure of Hobbes’ commonwealth, ethical system, and interpretation of Christianity. What is troubling is that the Hobbesian project has been largely missing in the applied ethics and public policy literature. We often find applications of Kantian deontology, Bentham’s or Mill’s utilitarianism, Rawls’s contractualism, the ethics of care, and various iterations of virtue ethics. Hobbesian accounts are routinely ignored and often derided. This is unfortunate because Hobbes’s project offers a unique perspective. To ignore it, when such a perspective would be fruitful to apply to another set of theoretical questions, is a problem in need of a remedy. This volume seeks to eliminate (or, at the very least, partially fill) this gap in the literature.
Not only will this volume appeal to those that are generally familiar with Hobbesian scholarship, it will also appeal to a variety of readers that are largely unfamiliar with Hobbes.
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Introduction
Shane D. Courtland
Section I: Core Issues in Application
- A Hobbesian Approach to Public Policy
Susanne Sreedhar
- Applied Ethics: A Challenge to Contractarianism?
Daniel Eggers
- Legislating Death: A Problem in Thomas Hobbes’s Argument and its Relevance for Contemporary Democracies
Eva Odzuck
Section II: Medical Ethics
- Hobbesian Medical Ethics
Rosamond Rhodes
- Hobbes and Physician-Assisted Suicide: Between the Pains of Life and Death
Joanne Boucher
- Hobbes and Informed Consent in Medicine
Marcus Adams
Section III: Local Issues in Applied Ethics and Public Policy
- Hobbes on the Ethic and Jurisprudence of Life
Kody Cooper
- Cheers by Command of the Sovereign: A Hobbesian Approach to Alcohol
Michael Krom
- Hobbes Comes Out for Equal Marriage
Eleanor Curran
Section IV: Political Issues in Public Policy
- Hobbes and Free Speech
David van Mill
- Hobbes and the Welfare State
Jan Narveson
- Hobbes on Serious Crime
Tom Sorell
Section V: Group Pluralism and Public Policy
- A Hobbesian Response to Terrorism
Jeremy Anderson
- Hobbesian Holdouts
Peter Vanderschraaf
- Between Two Masters: Hobbes’s Views on International Relations
Gabrielle Stanton
