Description
Needs and Moral Necessity
Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory Series
Author: Reader Soran
Language: English
Subject for Needs and Moral Necessity:
Keywords
Moral Agents; agents; Practice Conception; demands; Moral Demands; practice; Virtue Ethical; conception; Ethical Practice; negligibility; Virtue Ethical Theories; virtue; Moral Negligibility; ethics; Complementarity Thesis; ethical; Normative Ethical Theories; theories; Moral Worth; importance; Moral Practice; Moral Importance; Consequentialist Theories; Moral Relationship; Normative Moral Theory; Analytic Moral Philosophers; Core Virtues; Good Moral Agent; Roundabout; Virtue Theory; Virtuous Agent; Deontological Theories; Ordinary Moral Practice; Deontological Moral Theories; Internal Goods
Publication date: 08-2007
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 06-2012
184 p. · 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Description
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Needs and Moral Necessity analyses ethics as a practice, explains why we have three moral theory-types, consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics, and argues for a fourth needs-based theory.
1. Introduction 2. What Ethics Is 3. Ethics as a Practice 4. Meeting Patients’ Needs 5. The Moral Demandingness of Needs 6. Objections 7. Consequentialism 8. Deontology 9. Virtue Ethics
Soran Reader is Lecturer in Philosophy at Durham University and is editor of The Philosophy of Need (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
