Freedom and Fulfillment Philosophical Essays / Joel Feinberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feinberg, Joel, 1926-2004.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morale sociale.

Morale.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1994, 1992.

Summary:

Dealing with a diverse set of problems in practical and theoretical ethics, these fourteen essays, three of them previously unpublished, reconfirm Joel Feinberg's leading position in the field of legal philosophy. With a clarity and humor that will be familiar to readers of his other works, Feinberg writes on topics including "wrongful life" suits in the law of torts, or whether there is any sense in the remark that a person is so badly off that he would be better off not existing at all; the morality of abortion; educational options; free expression; civil disobedience; and the duty of easy rescue in criminal law. He continues with a three-part defense of moral rights in the abstract, a discussion of voluntary euthanasia, and an inquiry into arguments of various kinds for not granting legal rights in enforcement of a person's acknowledged moral rights. This collection concludes with two essays dealing with concepts used in appraising the whole of a person's life: absurdity and self-fulfillment, and their interplay.

Contents:

Wrongful life and the counterfactual element in harming

Abortion

The child's right to an open future

Sentiment and sentimentality in practical ethics

Limits to the free expression of opinion

Civil disobedience in the modern world

The moral and legal responsibility of the bad Samaritan

In defense of moral rights : their bare existence

In defense of moral rights : their social importance

In defense of moral rights : their constitutional relevance

An unpromising approach to the "right to die"

Seven modes of reasoning that can justify overlooking the merits of the individual case

when the facts are right

Absurd self-fulfillment

The absurd and the comic : why does some incongruity please?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"First Princeton paperback"--Verso de la page de titre

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691074122

0691074127

OCLC:

1273306655