Ethics Matters: Ethical Issues in Pragmatic Perspective

Rescher, Nicholas

This book covers a varied spectrum of ethical topics, ranging from the fundamental considerations regarding ethical values, to the rationale of obligation, and the ethical management of societal and personal affairs. Nicholas Rescher shows how fundamental general principles underpin the pragmatic stance we can appropriately take on questions of specific ethical detail. His work on these issues is pervaded by a certain pragmatic point of view. As the popular dictum has it, we humans come this way but once, with just a single lifetime available, to each one of us. Rescher argues that it is a matter of rational self-interest and ethical obligation to use this opportunity for doing something towards making the world a better home for ourselves and our posterity.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2020-11-06

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030520359

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-52036-6

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 253