Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
Moral Issues in Global Perspective - Volume 3: Moral Issues - Second Edition de Christine Koggel

Moral Issues in Global Perspective - Volume 3: Moral Issues - Second Edition

Editat de Christine Koggel
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 mar 2006

Observăm că a doua ediție a lucrării Moral Issues in Global Perspective - Volume 3: Moral Issues - Second Edition marchează o evoluție semnificativă față de literatura de specialitate prin reorganizarea conținutului în trei volume distincte, facilitând o explorare mult mai profundă a dilemelor etice contemporane. Această ediție aduce un suflu proaspăt prin includerea a 16 eseuri noi, oferind perspective critice care depășesc cadrul tradițional al teoriei liberale occidentale. Apreciem în mod deosebit efortul editoarei Christine Koggel de a ancora dezbaterile despre avort, eutanasie sau drepturile animalelor în realități geografice diverse, precum Argentina sau comunitățile de nativi americani, extinzând analiza dincolo de contextul nord-american.

Structura volumului este riguros organizată pe capitole tematice, începând cu problemele reproducerii și continuând cu asistența medicală și etica sfârșitului vieții. Fiecare secțiune este precedată de o introducere teoretică și urmată de întrebări de studiu, ceea ce indică o progresie pedagogică clară, ideală pentru mediul academic. Comparativ cu Moral Matters - Second Edition de Jan Narveson, care oferă o perspectivă libertariană unificată, volumul de față adoptă o abordare mult mai interdisciplinară și pluralistă, integrând voci din zona studiilor de gen, dizabilitate și clasă socială. De asemenea, deși acoperă teme similare cu Contemporary Moral Issues de Lawrence M. Hinman, lucrarea editată de Christine Koggel se distinge prin accentul pus pe impactul globalizării asupra grupurilor dezavantajate.

Această componentă a seriei completează viziunea autoarei dezvoltată în Moral Issues in Global Perspective - Volume 1: Moral and Political Theory - Second Edition, trecând de la fundamentele teoretice la aplicarea practică a eticii în situații de criză globală. Este o resursă esențială care provoacă cititorul să regândească valorile morale dintr-o perspectivă globală și incluzivă.

Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 39466 lei

Preț vechi: 50693 lei
-22%

Puncte Express: 592

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 13-27 mai
Livrare express 29 aprilie-05 mai pentru 7440 lei

 Adaugă în coș

Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781551117492
ISBN-10: 1551117495
Pagini: 301
Dimensiuni: 178 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:2
Editura: BROADVIEW PR
Colecția Broadview Press
Locul publicării:Peterborough, Canada

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest volum studenților și cercetătorilor din domeniul filozofiei și științelor politice care doresc să depășească viziunea eurocentrică asupra eticii. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere nuanțată a modului în care globalizarea transformă dezbaterile despre drepturile omului și sănătate. Este o lectură necesară pentru a înțelege cum teoria morală se intersectează cu justiția socială și diversitatea umană în secolul XXI.

Despre autor

Christine Koggel este profesoară de filozofie la Bryn Mawr College și o voce influentă în etica contemporană. Expertiza sa se concentrează pe dezvoltarea teoriilor relaționale ale egalității, temă explorată pe larg în lucrarea sa „Perspectives on Equality: Constructing a Relational Theory”. În calitate de editor, Koggel a reușit să creeze o platformă pentru dialogul intercultural, integrând în proiectele sale editoriale perspective din psihanaliză, drept și studii sociale. Activitatea sa academică este recunoscută pentru modul în care chestionează structurile de putere și promovează incluziunea grupurilor marginalizate în discursul filozofic global.

Recenzii

Now available in three thematic volumes, the second edition of Moral Issues in Global Perspective is a collection of the newest and best articles on current moral issues by moral and political theorists from around the globe. Each volume seeks to challenge the standard approaches to morality and moral issues shaped by Western liberal theory and to extend the inquiry beyond the context of North America. Covering a broad range of issues and arguments, this collection includes critiques of traditional liberal accounts of rights, justice, and moral values, while raising questions about the treatment of disadvantaged groups within and across societies affected by globalization. Providing new perspectives on issues such as war and terrorism, reproduction, euthanasia, censorship, and the environment, each volume of Moral Issues in Global Perspective incorporates work by race, class, feminist, and disability theorists.
In Moral Issues, the third of the three volumes, issues such as euthanasia and health care, reproductive issues, pornography and hate speech, animal rights, and environmental ethics are examined in the context of globalization and of differing social contexts and practices. Sixteen essays are new, one of which was written especially for this volume.
Moral Issues in Global Perspective is available in three separate volumes—Moral and Political Theory, Human Diversity and Equality, and Moral Issues.

“This is an immensely impressive and inspiring project. Each volume of Moral Issues in Global Perspective combines serious attention to moral and political theory with substantive treatment of actual moral issues as they arise in very different human contexts across the planet. No credible moral philosopher can ignore the fact that globalization and multiculturalism make a difference to how moral problems are framed and therefore to how those problems might be addressed. And our students deserve nothing less than to be exposed to the rich diversity of human thinking about how to live. Individually and collectively, these volumes provide essential guides to the latest conversation between theorists and practitioners around the world about a host of questions vital to everyday life and to the very future of ethical humankind.” — Susan Dwyer, University of Maryland, Baltimore
“This is a truly magnificent collection. It brings together some of the best writings that have been published in the area of social justice broadly construed, taking up such topics as child labor and terrorism in addition to many of the traditional issues. A most commendable feature is that not only are traditional and non-traditional writings represented, but we also have first-rate work by a particularly wide range of exceptional thinkers. It is not just that there is something for all. Rather, it is that there is much that would intellectually engage anyone.” — Laurence Thomas, Syracuse University, Maxwell School

Descriere

Now available in three thematic volumes, the second edition of Moral Issues in Global Perspective is a collection of the newest and best articles on current moral issues by moral and political theorists from around the globe. Each volume seeks to challenge the standard approaches to morality and moral issues shaped by Western liberal theory and to extend the inquiry beyond the context of North America. Covering a broad range of issues and arguments, this collection includes critiques of traditional liberal accounts of rights, justice, and moral values, while raising questions about the treatment of disadvantaged groups within and across societies affected by globalization. Providing new perspectives on issues such as war and terrorism, reproduction, euthanasia, censorship, and the environment, each volume of Moral Issues in Global Perspective incorporates work by race, class, feminist, and disability theorists.
In Moral Issues, the third of the three volumes, issues such as euthanasia and health care, reproductive issues, pornography and hate speech, animal rights, and environmental ethics are examined in the context of globalization and of differing social contexts and practices. Sixteen essays are new, one of which was written especially for this volume.
Moral Issues in Global Perspective is available in three separate volumes—Moral and Political Theory, Human Diversity and Equality, and Moral Issues.

Cuprins

Preface
CHAPTER ONE: REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
  • Introduction
  • Why Abortion is Immoral
    • Don Marquis
  • Sensationalized Philosophy: A Reply to Marquis’s “Why Abortion is Immoral”
    • Ann E. Cudd
  • The Importance of Ontology for Feminist Policy-Making in the Realm of Reproductive Technology
    • Susan Sherwin
  • In New Tests for Fetal Defects, Agonizing Choices for Parents
    • Amy Harmon
  • A History of Governmentally Coerced Sterilization: The Plight of the Native American Woman
    • Michael Sullivan DeFine
  • Reproductive Health and Research Ethics: Hot Issues in Argentina
    • Florencia Luna
  • Study Questions
  • Suggested Readings
CHAPTER TWO: EUTHANASIA, ASSISTED SUICIDE, AND HEALTH CARE
  • Introduction
  • Equality and Efficiency as Basic Social Values
    • Michael Stingl
  • Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, The Way They Do It
    • Margaret Battin
  • The Instability of the Standard Justification for Physician-Assisted Suicide
    • Thomas A. Cavanaugh
  • Unspeakable Conversations
    • Harriet McBryde Johnson
  • Dementia, Critical Interests, and Euthanasia
    • Nathan Brett
  • Study Questions
  • Suggested Readings
CHAPTER THREE: PORNOGRAPHY AND HATE SPEECH
  • Introduction
  • Women and Pornography
    • Ronald Dworkin
  • Feminist Anti-Pornography Struggles: Not the Church, But Maybe the State
    • Marvin Glass
  • Morality, Censorship, and Discrimination: Reframing the Pornography Debate in Germany and Europe
    • Heather MacRae
  • A Relational Critique of the Right to Privacy: The Case of Pornography and the Internet
    • Alison Minea and Christine M. Koggel
  • Public Response to Racist Speech: Considering the Victim’s Story
    • Mari J. Matsuda
  • Study Questions
  • Suggested Readings
CHAPTER FOUR: ANIMAL RIGHTS
  • Introduction
  • All Animals are Equal ...
    • Peter Singer
  • The Case for Animal Rights
    • Tom Regan
  • Vegetarianism and Virtue: Does Consequentialism Demand too Little?
    • Nathan Nobis
  • Your Daughter or Your Dog? A Feminist Assessment of the Animal Research Issue
    • Deborah Slicer
  • The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic
    • J. Baird Callicott
  • Study Questions
  • Suggested Readings
CHAPTER FIVE: THE ENVIRONMENT
  • Introduction
  • Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique
    • Ramachandra Guha
  • Moving Beyond Anthropocentrism: Environmental Ethics, Development, and the Amazon
    • Eric Katz and Lauren Oechsli
  • Development and Environmentalism
    • Robin Attfield
  • Maori Environmental Virtues
    • John Patterson
  • On Environmental Law
    • Michael Traynor
  • Study Questions
  • Suggested Readings
Acknowledgements