Rights and Goods: Justifying Social Action - Couverture souple

Held, Virginia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226325881 ISBN 13 : 9780226325880

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1989

Synopsis

Theories of justice, argues Virginia Held, are usually designed for a perfect, hypothetical world. They do not give us guidelines for living in an imperfect world in which the choices and decisions that we must make are seldom clear-cut.

Seeking a morality based on actual experience, Held offers a method of inquiry with which to deal with the specific moral problems encountered in daily life. She argues that the division between public and private morality is misleading and shows convincingly that moral judgment should be contextual. She maps out different approaches and positions for various types of issues, including membership in a state, legal decisions, political activities, economic transactions, interpersonal relations, diplomacy, journalism, and determining our obligation to future generations. Issues such as these provide the true test of moral theory, since its success is seen in the willingness of conscientious persons to commit themselves to it by acting on it in their daily lives.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Virginia Held is professor of philosophy at the City University of New York, Graduate School and Hunter College. She is the author of The Public Interest and Individual Interests, coauthor of Women's Realities, Women's Choices, and editor of Property, Profits, and Economic Justice, among other works.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226325881
• ISBN 13: 9780226325880
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible