Thomas E. Hill

Autonomy and Self-Respect

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This stimulating collection of essays in ethics addresses everyday moral issues, examines alternative responses to them, and explores the deeper theoretical questions which they raise. The essays focus especially on attitudes, virtues, and vices that are important to personal relationships and to how one views oneself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780521397728
• ISBN-10: 0521397723
• Artikelnr.: 21396948

Inhaltsangabe

Sources and acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Servility and self-respect
2. Self-respect reconsidered
3. Autonomy and benevolent lies
4. The importance of autonomy
5. Symbolic protest and calculated silence
6. Moral purity and the lesser evil
7. Self-regarding suicide: a modified Kantian view
8. Ideals of human excellence and preserving natural environments
9. Weakness of will and character
10. Promises to oneself
11. Social snobbery and human dignity
12. Pains and projects: justifying to oneself
13. The message of affirmative action
Index.