Suffering and moral responsibility
- 作者: Mayerfeld, Jamie.
- 出版: New York ;Oxford : Oxford University Press 1999.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages).
- 叢書名: Oxford ethics series
- 標題: Aspect moral. , Electronic books. , Verantwortung , Moral and ethical aspects. , Ethische aspecten. , Souffrance , PHILOSOPHY , Responsibility. , Ethik , Suffering , Souffrance Aspect moral. , Suffering Moral and ethical aspects. , Lijden. , Ethics & Moral Philosophy. , Verantwoordelijkheid. , PHILOSOPHY Ethics & Moral Philosophy. , Leid , Responsabilité.
- ISBN: 0198027559 , 9780198027553
- ISBN: 0195115996 , 9780195115994 , 0195154959 , 9780195154955
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index. Introduction -- The meaning of suffering -- The measurement of suffering -- The moral significance of suffering -- The duty to relieve suffering -- The moral asymmetry of happiness and suffering -- Trade-offs internal to the duty to relieve suffering -- The limits of the duty to relieve suffering.
- 摘要: "In this original study, Jamie Mayerfeld undertakes a careful inquiry into the meaning and moral significance of suffering. Understanding suffering in hedonistic terms as an affliction of feeling, he addresses difficulties associated with its identification and measurement. He then turns to an examination of the duty to relieve suffering: its content, its weight relative to other moral considerations, and the role it should play in our lives."--Jacket.
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In this original study, Jamie Mayerfeld undertakes a careful inquiry into the meaning and moral significance of suffering. Understanding suffering in hedonistic terms as an affliction of feeling, he addresses difficulties associated with its identification and measurement. He then turns to an examination of the duty to relieve suffering: its content, its weight relative to other moral considerations, and the role it should play in our lives. Among the claims defended in the book are that suffering needs to be distinguished from both physical pain and the frustration of desire, that interpersonal comparisons of the intensity of happiness and suffering are possible, that several psychological processes hinder our awareness of other people's suffering, and that the prevention of suffering should often be pursued indirectly. Mayerfeld concludes his discussion by arguing that the reduction of suffering is morally more important than the promotion of happiness, and that most of us greatly underestimate the force of the duty to prevent suffering. As the first systematic book-length inquiry into the moral significance of suffering, Suffering and Moral Responsibility makes an important contribution to moral philosophy and political theory, and will interest specialists in each of these areas.
來源: Google Book
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