
1st Edition
Needs and Moral Necessity
Copyright Year 2008
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Book Description
Needs and Moral Necessity analyses ethics as a practice, explains why we have three moral theory-types, consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics, and argues for a fourth needs-based theory.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. What Ethics Is 3. Ethics as a Practice 4. Meeting Patients’ Needs 5. The Moral Demandingness of Needs 6. Objections 7. Consequentialism 8. Deontology 9. Virtue Ethics
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Biography
Soran Reader is Lecturer in Philosophy at Durham University and is editor of The Philosophy of Need (Cambridge University Press, 2006).