1st Edition
Ethics for a Broken World Imagining Philosophy After Catastrophe
By Tim Mulgan
Copyright 2011
240 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Imagine living in the future in a world already damaged by humankind, a world where resources are insufficient to meet everyone's basic needs and where a chaotic climate makes life precarious. Then imagine looking back into the past, back to our own time and assessing the ethics of the early twenty-first century. "Ethics for a Broken World" imagines how the future might judge us and how living in... Read more
Introduction Part I: Rights Lecture 1: Nozick's on rights Lecture 2: Self-ownership Lecture 3: The Lockean proviso Lecture 4: Nozick in the broken world Lecture 5: Nationalism Part II: Utilitarianism Lecture 6: Act utilitarianism Lecture 7: Rule utilitarianism Lecture 8: Well-being and value Lecture 9: Mill on liberty Lecture 10: Utilitarianism and future people Lecture 11: Utilitarianism for a broken world Part III: The Social Contract Lecture 12: Hobbes and Locke Lecture 13: Rawls Lecture 14: Rawls and the future Lecture 15: Rawls in a broken world Part IV: Democracy Lecture 16: Democracy Lecture 17: Democracy and the future
Biography
Tim Mulgan
