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In this book the author argues that moral principles are principles of rational choice. According to the usual view of choice, a rational person selects what is likely to give the greatest expectation of value or utility. But in many situations, if each person chooses...
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Clarendon Press
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1987-05-21
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The author offers answers to three central questions about well-being: the best way to understand it; whether it can be measured; and where it should fit in moral and political thought.
This is a paperback reissue of the title published in hardback in 1986.
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
1986-12-18
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This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
1986-01-23
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The second volume in Joel Feinberg's seriesThe Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Offense to Others focuses on the "offense principle," which maintains that preventing shock, disgust, or revulsion is always a morally relevant reason for legal prohibitions. Feinberg...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1985-05-16
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This first volume in the four-volume series The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law focuses on the "harm principle," the commonsense view that prevention of harm to persons other than the perpetrator is a legitimate purpose of criminal legislation. Feinberg presents a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1984-07-05
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This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
1984-04-12
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Hare has written a clear, brief, and readable introduction to ethics which looks at all the fundamental problems of the subject.
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
1963-03-26
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As the most populous province in Canada, Ontario is a microcosm of the animal welfare issues which beset Western civilization. The authors of this book, chairman and vice-chairman, respectively, of the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, find...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-30
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Although Cultural Studies has directed sustained attacks against sexism and racism, the question of the animal has lagged behind developments in broader society with regard to animal suffering in factory farming, product testing, and laboratory experimentation, as well...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2008-05-20
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Cultural Studies
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Philosophical Theory and the Universal Declaration of Human Rightsexamines the relations and interrelations among theoretical and practical analyses of human rights. Edited by William Sweet, this volume draws on the works of philosophers, political theorists and those...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2003-05-26
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