Mark Coeckelbergh

Growing Moral Relations

Critique of Moral Status Ascription

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Produktbeschreibung

New scientific and technological developments challenge us to reconsider our moral world order. This book offers an original philosophical approach to this issue: it makes a distinctive contribution to the development of a relational approach to moral status by re-defining the problem in a social and phenomenological way.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-02595-1
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 239
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 441g
• ISBN-13: 9781137025951
• ISBN-10: 1137025956
• Artikelnr.: 35528594

Autorenporträt

Mark Coeckelbergh

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction - The Problem of Moral Status PART I: MORAL ONTOLOGIES: FROM INDIVIDUAL TO RELATIONAL DOGMAS Individual Properties Appearance and Virtue Relations: Communitarian and Metaphysical Relations: Natural and Social Relations: Hybrid and Environmental Conclusion Part I: Diogenes's Challenge PART II: MORAL STATUS ASCRIPTION AND ITS CONDITIONS OF POSSIBILITY: A TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENT Words and Sentences: Forms of Language Use Societies and Cultures (1): Forms of Living Together Societies and Cultures (2): Forms of Life Bodies and Things: Forms of Feeling and Making Spirits and Gods: Forms of Religion Fences, Walls, and Maps: Forms of Historical Space Moral Metamorphosis: Concluding the Transcendental Argument General Conclusion References Index