Inclusive Ethics: Extending Beneficence and Egalitarian Justice

Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press (2017)
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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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The Point of Moral Philosophy

The conclusion of Chapter 11 implied that moral philosophy could have a point, although morality does not: it could have a point by producing a rational consensus about the correctness of a morality that does not have any point for reasons indicated in the foregoing chapter. But in this ch... see more

Beyond Ethical Inclusiveness

As opposed to what was the case in ancient Greece, ethics or morality today does not cover the intrapersonal dimension of your acts affecting only yourself. A set of recommendations about how to act in this dimension in light of general facts about life, such as it being largely subject to... see more

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