Seumas Miller

The Moral Foundations of Social Institutions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Seumas Miller provides an exciting new philosophical theory of contemporary social institutions and the ethical challenges they confront.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780521767941
• ISBN-10: 0521767946
• Artikelnr.: 26033276

Autorenporträt

Seumas Miller is Foundation Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at Charles Sturt University and the Australian National University. He is the author of a number of books, including Social Action: A Teleological Account, Corruption and Anti-Corruption (with P. Roberts and E. Spence), Ethical Issues in Policing (with J. Blackler), and Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: Ethics and Liberal Democracy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to 'the moral foundations of social institutions'
Part I. Theory: 1. A teleological account of institutions
2. The moral foundations of institutions
3. Individual autonomy: agency and structure
4. Collective moral responsibility
5. Institutional corruption
Part II. Applications: 6. The professions
7. Welfare institutions
8. The university
9. The police
10. The business corporation
11. Institutions and information and communication technology
12. Government.

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Introduction to 'the moral foundations of social institutions'; Part I. Theory: 1. A teleological account of institutions; 2. The moral foundations of institutions; 3. Individual autonomy: agency and structure; 4. Collective moral responsibility; 5. Institutional corruption; Part II. Applications: 6. The professions; 7. Welfare institutions; 8. The university; 9. The police; 10. The business corporation; 11. Institutions and information and communication technology; 12. Government.

Rezensionen

'With this book, [Miller] implores us to consider how much better things could be if we all - and in particular, if people in key institutional roles of power - stopped to attend to the purposes of our institutions and the choices we make within them. The mere possibility of social institutions as Miller envisions them changes the normative landscape. In this sense, the book not only offers a powerful general theory and great deal of fodder for contemporary philosophical debates, it also serves as a model for how careful philosophical inquiry allows us to better understand who we can and should be.' Alexa Forrester, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews