Ethics matters : ethical issues in pragmatic perspective / Nicholas Rescher.

"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 pragma...

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Main Author: Rescher, Nicholas (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Cham, Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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505 0 |a Personhood -- The ethical import of value attribution -- The rational validation of ethical values -- Rationality and moral obligation -- On compromise and obligation -- Moral luck -- Fairness problems -- On the ethics of inaction -- Ancestor worship? -- Distant posterity (A philosophical glance along time's corridor) -- Is there a statute of limitations in ethics? -- An ethical paradox -- Collective responsibility -- Allocating scientific credit -- Morality in government and politics -- Problems of betterment -- Sovereign immunity in theological ethics -- Perfectibility problems. 
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