Ethics for a broken world : imagining philosophy after catastrophe / Tim Mulgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mulgan, Tim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Ethics.

Global environmental change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Other Title:

Imagining philosophy after catastrophe

Place of Publication:

Durham : Acumen, 2011.

Summary:

Imagine living in the future in a world already damaged by humankind, a world where resources are insufficient to meet everyone''s basic needs and where a chaotic climate makes life precarious. Then imagine looking back into the past, back to our own time and assessing the ethics of the early twenty-first century. ""Ethics for a Broken World"" imagines how the future might judge us and how living in a time of global environmental degradation might utterly reshape the politics and ethics of the future. This book is presented as a series of history of philosophy lectures given in the future, stu

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface: Imagining a broken world; Introductory lecture: Philosophy in the age of affluence; Part I: Rights; Lecture 1. Nozick on rights; Lecture 2. Self-ownership; Lecture 3. The Lockean proviso; Lecture 4. Nozick in a broken world; Lecture 5. Nationalism; Part II: Utilitarianism; Lecture 6. Act utilitarianism; Lecture 7. Rule utilitarianism; Lecture 8. Well-being and value; Lecture 9. Mill on liberty; Lecture 10. Utilitarianism and future people; Lecture 11. Utilitarianism in a broken world

Part III: The social contractLecture 12. Hobbes and Locke; Lecture 13. Rawls; Lecture 14. Rawls and the future; Lecture 15. Rawls in a broken world; Part IV: Democracy; Lecture 16. Democracy; Lecture 17. Democracy and the future; Reading list; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-225) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-73004-9

1-317-54774-8

9781315730042

OCLC:

794490823