Grounds for Respect - Particularism, Universalism, and Communal Accountability

Informationen zum Autor By Kristi Giselsson Klappentext Grounds for Respect broaches a question that is of vital importance to all; namely, what grounds do we need in order to justify respect for others? In exploring this question the author provides not only a critical overview of traditional and contemporary approaches to - and critiques of - the concept of a common humanity, but also offers a distinctively new approach as to what it might mean to be human. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter One: Universalism in the West Chapter Two: Posthumanist Theory: Respect for the Particular Chapter Three: Posthumanism Applied Chapter Four: Current Utilitarianism: Animals and Humans Chapter Five: Current Critical Humanism Chapter Six: Communal Accountability

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• Authors: Giselsson, Kristi Giselsson, Giselsson Kristi
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.08.2012
• EAN: 9780739168943
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-6894-3
• No. of pages: 235
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Humanist philosophy