1st Edition

Needs and Moral Necessity

By Soran Reader Copyright 2008
    182 Pages
    by Routledge

    358 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

    Soran Reader is Lecturer in Philosophy at Durham University and is editor of The Philosophy of Need (Cambridge University Press, 2006).