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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Persson, Ingmar, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Extending beneficence and egalitarian justice

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

'Inclusive Ethics' brings together 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. Ingmar Persson explores the difficulties of accepting a morality which combines both of these principles.

Contents:

Two aspects of things being intrinsically valuable for us: well-being and autonomy

Defence of an inclusive view of benefiting and reasons of beneficence

Three problems of procreation: replaceability, the asymmetry, and the non-identity problem

The repugnant conclusion and the non-transitivity of value relations

The end of life and of consciousness

The inclusion of non-human animals

The ground for the justice of equality

The badness of unjust inequality

Prioritarianism and its problems

Some alternative bases of equality

On the usefulness of the principles of beneficence and justice

The point of moral philosophy

Beyond ethical inclusiveness: the philosophy of life.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 10, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-251062-2

0-19-184047-5

0-19-251061-4