Needs and Moral Necessity

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-415-96035-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 162 mm, Gewicht: 424 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

Needs and Moral Necessity analyses ethics as a practice, explains why we have three moral theory-types, consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics, and argues for a fourth needs-based theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reader, Soran (Durham University, UK)

Reader, Soran

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. What Ethics Is 3. Ethics as a Practice 4. Meeting Patients’ Needs 5. The Moral Demandingness of Needs 6. Objections 7. Consequentialism 8. Deontology 9. Virtue Ethics

Über Autor(innen)

Soran Reader is Lecturer in Philosophy at Durham University and is editor of The Philosophy of Need (Cambridge University Press, 2006).