Applied Ethics in a Troubled World

✍ Scribed by Robin Attfield (auth.), Edgar Morscher, Otto Neumaier, Peter Simons (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 326
• Series: Philosophical Studies Series 73
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

During the last two decades, applied ethics has not only developed into one of the most important philosophical disciplines but has also differentiated into so many subdisciplines that it is becoming increasingly difficult to survey it. A much-needed overview is provided by the eighteen contributions to this volume, in which internationally renowned experts deal with central questions of environmental ethics, bioethics and medical ethics, professional and business ethics, social, political, and legal ethics as well as with the aims and foundations of applied ethics in general. Thanks to a philosophical introduction and selected bibliographical references added to each chapter, the book is very well suited as a basis for courses in applied ethics. It is directed not only to philosophers and to ethicists from other disciplines but to scientists in general and to all people who are interested in the rational discussion of moral principles and their application to concrete problems in the sciences and in everyday life.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-8
The Comprehensive Ecology Movement....Pages 9-27
Legal Rights for Natural Objects a Philosophical Critique....Pages 29-40
Rights Across Species....Pages 41-55
Mucking with Nature....Pages 57-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-92
On Comparing the Value of Human and Nonhuman Life....Pages 93-104
Should we Attempt to Eradicate Disability?....Pages 105-114
Is Nursing Ethics Distinct from Medical Ethics?....Pages 115-125
A Nursing Ethics of Care? Why Caring is Not Enough....Pages 127-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-150
Business Ethics as a Goal-Rights-System....Pages 151-166
Personal Ideals and Professional Responsibilities....Pages 167-178
Postmodernism, Business Ethics, and Solidarity....Pages 179-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-202
Liberal Society and Planned Morality?....Pages 203-223
The Community of Rights....Pages 225-235
Does Utilitarianism Favor Economic Equality?....Pages 237-244
Front Matter....Pages 245-250
What is Moral Philosophy and What is Its Function?....Pages 251-272
Applied Ethics: A Normative View....Pages 273-284
Objectivism and The Alternatives....Pages 285-294
Philosophy and Conflict....Pages 295-305
Back Matter....Pages 307-319

✦ Subjects

Philosophy; Ethics