This book covers a varied spectrum of ethical topics, ranging from the fundamental considerations regarding ethical values, to the rationale of obligation, and the ethical management of societal and personal affairs. Nicholas Rescher shows how fundamental general principles underpin the pragmatic stance we can appropriately take on questions of specific ethical detail. His work on these issues is pervaded by a certain pragmatic point of view. As the popular dictum has it, we humans come this way but once, with just a single lifetime available, to each one of us. Rescher argues that it is a matter of rational self-interest and ethical obligation to use this opportunity for doing something towards making the world a better home for ourselves and our posterity.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1: PERSONHOOD
Chapter 2: THE ETHICAL IMPORT OF VALUE ATTRIBUTION
Chapter 3: THE RATIONAL VALIDATION OF ETHICAL VALUES
Chapter 4: RATIONALITY AND MORAL OBLIGATION
Chapter 5: ON COMPROMISE AND OBLIGATION
Chapter 6: MORAL LUCK
Chapter 7: FAIRNESS PROBLEMS
Chapter 8: ON THE ETHICS OF INACTION
Chapter 9: ANCESTOR WORSHIP?
Chapter 10: DISTANT POSTERITY
(A PHILOSOPHICAL GLANCE ALONG TIME’S CORRIDOR)
Chapter 11: IS THERE A STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IN ETHICS?
Chapter 12: AN ETHICAL PARADOX
Chapter 13: COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Chapter 14: ALLOCATING SCIENTIFIC CREDIT
Chapter 15: MORALITY IN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
Chapter 16: PROBLEMS OF BETTERMENT
Chapter 17: SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY IN THEOLOGICAL ETHICS
Chapter 18: PERFECTIBILITY PROBLEMS
Über den Autor
Nicholas Rescher is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. In a productive research career extending over six decades, he has well over one hundred books to his credit. Fourteen books about Rescher’s philosophy have been published in five languages.Ebooks vom selben Autor / Herausgeber
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