Needs and Moral Necessity
1st Edition
Published on 10. October 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
182 pages
978-0-415-54294-4 (ISBN)
Description
Needs and Moral Necessity analyses ethics as a practice, explains why we have three moral theory-types, consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics, and argues for a fourth needs-based theory.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-54294-4 (9780415542944)
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Person
Soran Reader is Lecturer in Philosophy at Durham University and is editor of The Philosophy of Need (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Content
1. Introduction 2. What Ethics Is 3. Ethics as a Practice 4. Meeting Patients' Needs 5. The Moral Demandingness of Needs 6. Objections 7. Consequentialism 8. Deontology 9. Virtue Ethics