Ethics matters [electronic resource] : ethical issues in pragmatic perspective / Nicholas Rescher.
"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 pragma...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2021]
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| Summary: | "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."--from publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783030520366 3030520366 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |