Inclusive ethics : extending beneficence and egalitarian justice / Ingmar Persson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Persson, Ingmar, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Physical Description:

272 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Inclusive Ethics examines two ideas which are part of our everyday morality, namely that we have a moral reason to benefit or do good to other beings, and that justice requires these benefits to be distributed equally. A morality comprising of these two general principles will be exceedingly hard to apply as these principles will have to be balanced against each in an intuitive fashion, but also because the notion of what benefits beings is complex, comprising both experiential components of pleasure and successful exercises of autonomy. Ingmar Persson argues that, on philosophical reflection, these ideas turn out to be more far-reaching than we imagine. In particular, the reason to benefit commits us to benefit beings by bringing them into existence. Further, since grounds commonly used to justify that some are better off than others-such as their being more deserving or having rights to more-are untenable, justice requires a more extensive equality. Persson concludes by reflecting on the problems of getting people to accept a morality which differs markedly from the morality with which they have grown up. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The Inclusiveness of Benefiting and Reasons of Beneficence

1 Two Aspects of Things Being Intrinsically Valuable for Us: Well-Being and Autonomy 27

2 Defence of an Inclusive View of Benefiting and Reasons of Beneficence 48

3 Three Problems of Procreation: Replaceability, the Asymmetry, and the Non-Identity Problem 77

4 The Repugnant Conclusion and the Non-Transitivity of Value Relations 103

5 The End of Life and of Consciousness 119

6 The Inclusion of Non-Human Animals 137

Part II Extreme Egalitarianism

7 The Ground for the Justice of Equality 149

3 The Badness of Unjust Inequality 172

9 Prioritarianism and Its Problems 183

10 Some Alternative Bases of Equality 208

Part III Philosophical Thinking about How to Live

11 On the Usefulness of the Principles of Beneficence and Justice 225

12 The Point of Moral Philosophy 235

13 Beyond Ethical Inclusiveness: The Philosophy of Life 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-267) and index.

ISBN:

0198792174

9780198792178

OCLC:

960088829