UID:
almafu_9959328339602883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 144 pages) :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9780470696606
,
0470696605
,
9781405182195
,
1405182199
,
1280932759
,
9781280932755
Content:
Bull; bull; If a severe misfortune makes your life better, was it unfortunate? bull; Could it be that 50% of competent medical doctors ought promptly to retire? bull; Might a justice system threaten with unjust punishment, to avert the need for punishment? bull; Could things become too good, morally? bull; Can terrorists morally complain if innocent people they care about are harmed? The importance of paradox in the study of philosophy, from metaphysics to logic, is evident from the abundant literature on the subject. But until now, very little critical study of paradox within ethics has been.
Note:
Fortunate misfortune -- The paradox of beneficial retirement -- Two paradoxes about justice and the severity of punishment -- Blackmail : the solution -- The paradox of non-punishment -- On not being sorry about the morally bad -- Choice-egalitarianism and the paradox of the baseline -- Morality and moral worth -- The paradox of moral complaint -- Preferring not to have been born -- A meta-paradox : are paradoxes bad? -- Reflections on moral paradox.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Smilansky, Saul. 10 moral paradoxes. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007 ISBN 1405160861
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781405160865
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1002/9780470696606
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470696606
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470696606
