Moral Demands of Memory

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Blustein is Professor of Bioethics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Barnard College. He is the author of Parents and Children: The Ethics of the Family; Care and Commitment: Taking the Personal Point of View; and most recently, Ethics for Health Care Organizations and Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees (both with Linda Farber Post and Nancy Dubler). He has published numerous articles in journals such as Metaphilosophy, Dialogue, the Journal of Social Philosophy, the Journal of Value Inquiry and Bioethics. Klappentext Jeffrey Blustein provides a rigorous account of a morality of memory. Zusammenfassung Jeffrey Blustein provides a rigorous account of a morality of memory. He offers a novel examination of memory and our relations to people and events from our past! the ways in which memory is preserved and transmitted! and the moral responsibilities associated with it. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Memory as a subject of evaluative inquiry; 2. Taking responsibility for one's own past; 3. Doing justice to the past; 4. Ethics, truth, and collective memory; 5. The responsibility of remembrance; 6. Memory and bearing witness.

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• Authors: Jeffrey Blustein, Jeffrey (Albert Einstein College of Medi Blustein
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2008
• EAN: 9780521709729
• ISBN: 978-0-521-70972-9
• No. of pages: 386
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works