Ferdinand David Schoeman

Privacy and Social Freedom

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book attacks the assumption found in much moral philosophy that social control as such is an intellectually and morally destructive force.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780521061360
• ISBN-10: 0521061369
• Artikelnr.: 23509513

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The meaning and scope of privacy
2. Mill's approach to social freedom
3. Articulated rationality and the Archimedean critique of culture
4. Social freedom from the perspective of cognitive and social psychology
5. The importance of cultural authority for morality
6. Explaining privacy's place
7. The ascent of privacy: a historical and conceptual account
8. Privacy and gossip
9. Privacy and spheres of life
10. Spheres of life: a literary exploration
Epilogue
Notes
Index.