Partiality And Impartiality

Author : Brian Feltham
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199579954
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Partiality and Impartiality written by Brian Feltham and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues of impartiality and partiality are a major focus of debate in moral theory. Should our personal relationships and commitments have a special place in our moral deliberations? Ten specially written essays by experts in the field offer a variety of perspectives, which will interest readers in both theoretical and practical ethics.

Author : M. Molefe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498599443
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Partiality and Impartiality in African Philosophy written by M. Molefe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partiality and Impartiality in African Philosophy fills the lacuna in African philosophy literature on the inherent tension between requirements of partiality (favoritism) and impartiality (equality). Motsamai Molefe deploys two strategies to philosophically resolve the tension between partiality and impartiality. The first strategy involves applying the moral theories of Kwasi Wiredu, Thaddeus Metz, and Kwame Gyekye to the problem. Finding their views useful in some ways and seriously limited in others, Molefe turns to the second strategy in which he invokes the salient normative concept of personhood in African cultures. Molefe argues that the concept of personhood adjoins theories of human dignity and moral perfection (virtue). The major insight that emerges is a robust ethical theory qua personhood that accommodates both partiality and impartiality. He grounds requirements of impartiality on human dignity, which operates largely as a macro-ethical concept that normatively informs the character of our social institutions (politics). Politics is characterized by fairness, equality, and impartiality. Partiality (the agent-and-other-centred forms of it) is directly connected with the agent’s chief moral duty to achieve her own virtue (moral perfection), which operates as a micro-ethical concept. These two kinds of moral partialism, self-favoritism and close ties such as family, are justified by appeal to the project's view, instead of the individuals-and-relationships view typically invoked to justify moral partiality in the literature.

Author : Simon Keller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400846382
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Partiality written by Simon Keller and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are partial to people with whom we share special relationships--if someone is your child, parent, or friend, you wouldn't treat them as you would a stranger. But is partiality justified, and if so, why? Partiality presents a theory of the reasons supporting special treatment within special relationships and explores the vexing problem of how we might reconcile the moral value of these relationships with competing claims of impartial morality. Simon Keller explains that in order to understand why we give special treatment to our family and friends, we need to understand how people come to matter in their own rights. Keller first presents two main accounts of partiality: the projects view, on which reasons of partiality arise from the place that people take within our lives and our commitments, and the relationships view, on which relationships themselves contain fundamental value or reason-giving force. Keller then argues that neither view is satisfactory because neither captures the experience of acting well within special relationships. Instead, Keller defends the individuals view, on which reasons of partiality arise from the value of the individuals with whom our relationships are shared. He defends this view by saying that we must accept that two people, whether friend or stranger, can have the same value, even as their value makes different demands upon people with whom they share different relationships. Keller explores the implications of this claim within a wider understanding of morality and our relationships with groups, institutions, and countries.

Author : Brian Feltham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191595233
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Partiality and Impartiality written by Brian Feltham and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues of impartiality and partiality are a focus of debate in moral theory. Should our personal relationships and commitments have a special place in our moral deliberations? Ten specially written essays by experts in the field offer a variety of perspectives, which will interest readers in both theoretical and practical ethics.

Author : Motsamai Molefe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030155617
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An African Philosophy of Personhood, Morality, and Politics written by Motsamai Molefe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the salient ethical idea of personhood in African philosophy. It is a philosophical exposition that pursues the ethical and political consequences of the normative idea of personhood as a robust or even foundational ethical category. Personhood refers to the moral achievements of the moral agent usually captured in terms of a virtuous character, which have consequences for both morality and politics. The aim is not to argue for the plausibility of the ethical and political consequences of the idea of personhood. Rather, the book showcases some of the moral-political content and consequences of the account it presents.

Author : Marita Nordhaug
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367224509
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Partiality and Justice in Nursing Care written by Marita Nordhaug and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partiality and Justice in Nursing Careexamines the conflicting normative claims of partiality and impartiality in nursing care, looking in depth at how to reconcile reasonable concerns for one particular patient with equally important concerns for the maximisation of health-related welfare for all with relevant nursing-care needs, in a resource-limited setting. Drawing on moral philosophy, this book explores how discussions of partiality and impartiality in moral philosophy can have relevance to the professional context of clinical nursing care as well as in nursing ethics in general. It develops a framework for normative nursing ethics that incorporates a notion of permissible partiality, and specifies which concerns an ethics of nursing care should entail when balancing partialist and impartialist concerns. At the same time, Nordhaug argues that this partiality must also be constrained by both principled and context-sensitive assessments of patients' needs, as well as of the role-relative deontological restriction of minimising harm, something that could be mitigated by institutional and organisational arrangements. This thought-provoking volume is an important contribution to nursing ethics and philosophy. ents of patients' needs, as well as of the role-relative deontological restriction of minimising harm, something that could be mitigated by institutional and organisational arrangements. This thought-provoking volume is an important contribution to nursing ethics and philosophy.

Author : Thomas Nagel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198023421
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Equality and Partiality written by Thomas Nagel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-11 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from Thomas Nagel's Locke Lectures, Equality and Partiality proposes a nonutopian account of political legitimacy, based on the need to accommodate both personal and impersonal motives in any credible moral theory, and therefore in any political theory with a moral foundation. Within each individual, Nagel believes, there is a division between two standpoints, the personal and the impersonal. Without the impersonal standpoint, there would be no morality, only the clash, compromise, and occasional convergence of individual perspectives. It is because a human being does not occupy only his own point of view that each of us is susceptible to the claims of others through private and public morality. Political systems, to be legitimate, must achieve an integration of these two standpoints within the individual. These ideas are applied to specific problems such as social and economic inequality, toleration, international justice, and the public support of culture. Nagel points to the problem of balancing equality and partiality as the most important issue with which political theorists are now faced.

Author : Deen K. Chatterjee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402091591
Total Pages : 1213 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Global Justice written by Deen K. Chatterjee and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011 with total page 1213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia provides a premier reference guide for students, scholars, policy makers, and others interested in assessing the moral consequences of global interdependence and understanding the concepts and arguments that shed light on the myriad aspects of global justice.

Author : Telesia Musili
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783838306261
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impartiality and Partiality Viewpoints written by Telesia Musili and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work centers on the complexity of working with both partiality and impartiality moral viewpoints in the formation of ethical theories for moral judgment. These standpoints have to be understood as the personal and the impersonal, rather the partial and the impartial. This book attempts to reconcile the two standpoints. In view of Jesus teaching on love your neighbor as you love yourself, we argued that we have to love ourselves first before we extend our love to others. Self-awareness may be said to be a quality that all rational human persons have and the way in which it is exercised depends upon other qualities, which exist in them. This work involves the notion of ethics and morality as of primary importance to humanity. A person will become aware of himself/herself when and only when he/she succeeds or fails in relating himself/herself adequately to the rest of the humanity. Therefore, relationality allows us to talk of perfect ends that are ethically relational and to talk of ethics: both self-realization and encompassing every other person. In conclusion, these two viewpoints must complement each other since we are always in relation.

Author : Virginia Held
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195180992
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Care written by Virginia Held and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. Held examines what we mean by care and focuses on caring relationships. She also looks at the potential of care for dealing with social issues and global problems.