Ethics and Reality: Collected Essays - Couverture rigide

Teichman, Jenny

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0754605345 ISBN 13 : 9780754605348

Editeur : Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2001

Synopsis

"The punchy and polemical pieces in this collection will entertain as well as instruct". Nicholas Denyer, Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, UK "Jenny Teichman's essays contain some of her witty and trenchant pieces and will be relished by connoisseurs". Jane Heal, Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, UK "Jenny Teichman is a clear-eyed  philosophical polemicist who elegantly deconstructs many fashionable shibboleths, from euthanasia, abortion and Œregenerative¹ cloning to free speech, moral relativism  --- and deconstruction itself." Peter Coleman, writer and editor. Ethics and Reality presents a new collection of Jenny Teichman's most important essays across a wide spectrum of ethical issues. Teichman explores a range of human problems including: war and peace, tyranny and terrorism, sex and gender and life and death. Focusing particularly on philosophical scepticism and reality, Teichman argues that if scepticism is irrefutable then ethical reasoning has no connection with reality and what look like genuine human dilemmas must be purely imaginary. The essays in the first part of this book are intended to show that scepticism can be rebutted; those in the second and third sections exemplify the applicaion of moral reasoning to inescapable quandaries.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0754605345
• ISBN 13: 9780754605348
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible