Ethics and Self-Knowledge Respect for Self-Interpreting Agents /
This book explores the theoretical basis of our ethical obligations to others as self-knowing beings - this task being envisaged as an essential supplement to a traditional ethic of respect for persons. Authoritative knowledge of others brings with it certain obligations, which are reflected in (int...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2011.
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| Σειρά: | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy,
26 |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Preface Fragmentation.- 1.1 Respect for persons, and persons as ends.- 1.2 The essence of ‘respect for persons’.- 1.3 Contemporary challenges.- 1.3.1 The problem of integration.- 1.3.2 The problem of ‘personhood’.- 1.3.3 The problem of Objectification.- 1.4 The aftermath.- 2. Discrimination.- 2.1 Introductory remarks.- 2.2 Discrimination and procedural unfairness.- 2.3 Discrimination and intentionality.- 2.4 Discrimination as an interpretive moral wrong.- 3. Stereotyping.- 3.1 A potential counterexample.- 3.2 Injustice and stereotyping.- 3.3 Ideological stereotyping.- 4. Objectification.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.1.1 First stage objectification: instrumentalisation.- 4.1.2 Second stage objectification: adoption of alien ends.- 4.1.3 Third stage objectification: ‘Reduction’ and reflection.- 4.2 Objectification as an interpretive moral wrong.- 4.3 Objectification, stereotyping and scientific self-knowledge.- 4.3.1 Marx and commodification.- 4.3.2 Objectification in genetic research 5. Recognition.- 5.1 Hegel on recognition.- 5.2 Dignity and universal self-consciousness.- 5.3 Essentialism and political liberalism.- 6. Inauthenticity.- 6.1 Liberalism, essentialism and positivism
- 6.2 Phenomenological essentialism.- 6.3 Dasein, intelligibility and alienation.- 6.4 Inauthenticity and objectification.- 7. Sadism.- 7.1 Duality and Intentionality.- 7.2 Being-with-others, the ‘look’.- 7.3 Modes of instrumentalisation
- 7.3.1 Indifference.- 7.3.2 Love, and love’s fragility.- 7.3.3 Sadism and sexual desire.- 7.4 Non-complementarity.- 8. Subjection.- 8.1 Knowledge, power and recognition.- 8.2 Self-knowledge and the abuse of power.- 9. Honesty.- 10. Conclusion and implications. .
