1st Edition
Sacrifice and Moral Philosophy
Introduction: Self-Sacrifice and Moral Philosophy
Marcel van Ackeren and Alfred Archer
1. On the Moral Significance of Sacrifice
Joseph Raz
2. How Morality Becomes Demanding Cost vs. Difficulty and Restriction
Marcel van Ackeren
3. Sacrifice and Relational Well-Being
Vanessa Carbonell
4. When does ‘Can’ imply ‘Ought’?
Stephanie Collins
5. Sacrificing Value
Lisa Tessman
6. The Value of Sacrifices
Jörg Löschke
7. Sentimentalist Practical Reason and Self-Sacrifice
Michael Slote
8. Demandingness and Boundaries Between Persons
Edward Harcourt
9. Rehabilitating Self-Sacrifice: Care Ethics and the Politics of Resistance
Amanda Cawston and Alfred Archer
10. The Cross
Sophie-Grace Chappell
Biography
Marcel van Ackeren is an External Investigator at Freiburg’s Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies, a Research Associate at Oxford’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and an Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy in Oxford, UK. He has held visiting positions at Cambridge, Berne and Milan, was Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Greifswald and was Fellow and Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Bioethics at Münster University, Germany. He works in ethics, especially demandingness, history of philosophy, especially ancient and Kantian philosophy and methodology/metaphilosophy
Alfred Archer is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The Department of Philosophy and The Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science at Tilburg University, Netherlands. His primary research is in moral philosophy, particularly supererogation (acts beyond the call of duty) and the nature and ethics of admiration. He also has research interests in political philosophy, applied ethics, philosophy of emotion and the philosophy of sport.
