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The Limits of Kindness
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013)
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Caspar Hare presents a bold and original approach to questions of what we ought to do, and why we ought to do it. He breaks with tradition to argue that we can tackle difficult problems in normative ethics by starting with a principle that is humble and uncontroversial. Being moral involves wanting particular other people to be better offAuthor's Profile
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Robust Essences
A claim concerning the metaphysics of personal essence is advanced and defended: people are not perfectly fragile along any natural dimension of sameness/difference. All people could have been slightly taller than they actually are, slightly genetically different, born slightly earlier, co... see more
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