Ethics of Need - Agency, Dignity, and Obligation

The Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation explores the philosophical significance of human vulnerability and interdependence for moral responsibility. Drawing on Kantian and feminist ethics, the book advances a normative analysis of the concept of need that reveals an obligation to meet others' needs in a manner that promotes their agency and dignity.

List of contents

Introduction 1. The Moral Significance of Needs 2. The Duty to Care 3. the Manner of Meeting Needs 4. The Margins of Agency: Caring for the Fundamental Needs of Old Age 5. Global Needs and Care: Introducing Cosmopolitan Care 6. Future Needs. Bibliography

About the author

Sarah Clark Miller is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Rock Ethics Institute at The Pennsylvania State University. She has published articles on ethical theory, social and political philosophy, and applied ethics in journals such as Social Theory and Practice and the Journal of Social Philosophy. She is currently completing a book on global responsibility.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Clark Miller
• Assisted by: Robert Bernasconi (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2014
• EAN: 9780415754422
• ISBN: 978-0-415-75442-2
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Studies in Philosophy
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works