Inclusive Ethics: Extending Beneficence and Egalitarian Justice (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198792178)

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.

Author: Ingmar Persson
ISBN-10: 0198792174
ISBN-13: 9780198792178
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 04/09/2017
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2017