Ethics Matters : Ethical Issues in Pragmatic Perspective / by 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 pragmatic st...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition 2021. |
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2021 English/International |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 253 pages 29 illus) |
| ISBN: | 3030520358 9783030520359 3030520366 9783030520366 |