| Description |
vi, 230 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Demandingness and arguments from presupposition / Garrett Cullity -- 2. What do basic rights demand? / Rowan Craft -- 3. Demandingness and rules / Onora O'Neill -- 4. Impartial benevolence and partial love / Timothy Chappell -- 5. Demandingness, moral development and moral philosophy / John Cottingham -- 6. Virtue ethics and the problem of demandingness / Christine Swanton -- 7. Consequentialism, integrity and demandingness / Alan Thomas -- 8. The demandingness objection / Brad Hooker -- 9. Is utilitarian morality necessarily too demanding? / Alan Carter -- 10. Moral demands and not doing the best one can / Jennie Louise -- 11. The demanding future / Tim Mulgan |
| Summary |
How much can morality demand of well-off Westerners as a response to the plight of the poor and starving in the rest of the world, or in response to environmental crises? Is it wrong to put your friends and family first? And what do the answers to these questions tell us about the nature of morality? This collection of eleven new essays from some of the world's leading moral philosophers brings the reader to the cutting edge of this contemporary ethical debate. With essays from Kantians, utilitarians, rights theorists, virtue ethicists, and others, a wide variety of major ethical approaches are represented by distinguished authors |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Duty.
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Social ethics.
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| Author |
Chappell, T. D. J. (Timothy D. J.)
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| LC no. |
2009035265 |
| ISBN |
0230219403 (hardback) |
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9780230219403 (hardback) |
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