Moral Strangers, Moral Acquaintance, and Moral Friends : Connectedness and its Conditions

Loewy, Erich H.

State University of New York Press（1996/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 251 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780791431313
• DDC分類 177

基本説明

Elaborates an ethic in which beneficence on a personal and communal level has moral force; proposes the idea of an interplay between compassion and reason to help address moral problems.

Full Description

The author deals with the problem of shaping a more than minimalistic ethic in a pluralistic world. He discusses the notions of various types of moral valuing and the idea of a homeostatic balance between the demands of individuals and the requirements of community. He also proposes an idea of an interplay between compassion and reason which can help address moral problems; and, lastly, he sketches the necessary conditions for a democratic approach to such problems.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Suffering, Communities, and Interconnections

2. Moral Acquaintances: A Way of Relating

3. Social Connectedness, Social Contract, A Prioris and Strangers

4. Crafting an Ethic

5. Summing Up: Problems and Approaches

Notes

Index