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Title Partiality and impartiality : morality, special relationships, and the wider world / edited by Brian Feltham and John Cottingham
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 258 pages) : illustrations
Contents When is impartiality morally appropriate? / Brad Hooker -- The demands of impartiality and the evolution of morality / Gerald F. Gaus -- Impartiality and ethical formation / John Cottingham -- The bishop, the chambermaid, the wife, and the ass : what difference does it make if something is mine? / Maximilian de Gaynesford -- Morality and reasonable partiality / Samuel Scheffler -- Permissible partiality, projects, and plural agency / Sarah Stroud -- Responsibility within relations / Stephen Darwall -- Which relationships justify partiality? General considerations and problem cases / Niko Kolodny -- Fairness and noncompliance / Michael Ridge -- I will if you will : leveraged enhancements / David Estlund
Summary Issues of impartiality and partiality are a focus of debate in moral theory. Should our personal relationships and commitments have a special place in our moral deliberations? Ten specially written essays by experts in the field offer a variety of perspectives, which will interest readers in both theoretical and practical ethics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Fairness.
Perspective (Philosophy)
Fairness
Perspective (Philosophy)
Form Electronic book
Author Feltham, Brian
Cottingham, John, 1943-
Oxford University Press
ISBN 9780199579952
0199579954
9780191595233
0191595233