This is a tightly argued and challenging book. It is deserving of our study and of our responses. The wide range of topics it covers and the systematic way they are covered qualify it as an achievement. And it challenges many of our moral beliefs. Persson is quite comfortable standing outside what people commonly believe about morality, which will provide the reader with a number of surprises. The comprehensive systematic approach is one I strongly favor.

David Kaspar, St. John's University, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Inclusive Ethics begins from two ideas which are part of our everyday morality, namely that we have a moral reason to benefit or do good to other beings, and that justice requires these benefits to be distributed equally. A morality comprising these two general principles will be exceedingly hard to apply as these principles will have to be balanced against each in an intuitive fashion, but also because the notion of what benefits beings is quite complex, comprising both experiential components of pleasure and successful exercises of autonomy. Ingmar Persson argues that, on philosophical reflection, these ideas turn out to be more far-reaching than we imagine. In particular, the reason to benefit commits us to benefit beings by bringing them into existence. Further, since grounds that are commonly used to justify that some are better off than others - such as their being more deserving or having rights to more - are untenable, justice requires a more extensive equality. The book concludes by reflecting on the problems of getting people to accept a morality which differs markedly from the morality with which they have grown up.
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Inclusive Ethics brings together two ideas which are part of our everyday morality, namely that we have a moral reason to benefit or do good to other beings, and that justice requires these benefits to be distributed equally. Ingmar Persson explores the difficulties of accepting a morality which combines both of these principles.
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PART I: THE INCLUSIVENESS OF BENEFITING AND REASONS OF BENEFICENCE; PART II: EXTREME EGALITARIANISM; PART III: PHILOSOPHICAL THINKING ABOUT HOW TO LIVE
An ambitious work of moral philosophy by one of Europe's leading philosophers Addresses the problem of accepting a morality that differs from common-sense morality
Ingmar Persson received his PhD in practical philosophy in 1981 before becoming a Junior Research Fellow, Lecturer, and then Professor in the same discipline at the University of Lund, Sweden. Ingmar then moved to Gothenburg to take up the chair in practical philosophy in 2004. He has also been a Part-time Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics for almost 10 years.
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An ambitious work of moral philosophy by one of Europe's leading philosophers Addresses the problem of accepting a morality that differs from common-sense morality

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ISBN
9780198792178
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press
Vekt
568 gr
Høyde
243 mm
Bredde
182 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
282

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Ingmar Persson received his PhD in practical philosophy in 1981 before becoming a Junior Research Fellow, Lecturer, and then Professor in the same discipline at the University of Lund, Sweden. Ingmar then moved to Gothenburg to take up the chair in practical philosophy in 2004. He has also been a Part-time Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics for almost 10 years.