1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459192903321

Autore

Darwall Stephen L. <1946->

Titolo

Welfare and rational care [[electronic resource] /] / Stephen Darwall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-66567-7

9786612665677

1-4008-2532-6

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (146 p.)

Collana

Princeton monographs in philosophy

Disciplina

177/.7

Soggetti

Ethics

Contentment

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-131) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER I: Welfare's Normativity -- CHAPTER II: Welfare and Care -- CHAPTER III: Empathy, Sympathy, Care -- CHAPTER IV: Valuing Activity: Golub's Smile -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

What kind of life best ensures human welfare? Since the ancient Greeks, this question has been as central to ethical philosophy as to ordinary reflection. But what exactly is welfare? This question has suffered from relative neglect. And, as Stephen Darwall shows, it has done so at a price. Presenting a provocative new "rational care theory of welfare," Darwall proves that a proper understanding of welfare fundamentally changes how we think about what is best for people. Most philosophers have assumed that a person's welfare is what is good from her point of view, namely, what she has a distinctive reason to pursue. In the now standard terminology, welfare is assumed to have an "agent-relative normativity." Darwall by contrast argues that someone's good is what one should want for that person insofar as one cares for her. Welfare, in other words, is normative, but not peculiarly for the person whose welfare is at stake. In addition, Darwall makes the radical proposal that something's contributing to someone's welfare is the same thing as its being something one ought to want for her own sake, insofar as one



cares. Darwall defends this theory with clarity, precision, and elegance, and with a subtle understanding of the place of sympathetic concern in the rich psychology of sympathy and empathy. His forceful arguments will change how we understand a concept central to ethics and our understanding of human bonds and human choices.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996397139303316

Titolo

A Copie of tvvo vvritings sent to the Parliament [[electronic resource] ] : the one intituled motions for reforming of the Church of England in this present Parliament, most taken out of Irenaus Philadelphus : the other a humble petition unto the Parliament, for reforming of the Church of England, all taken out of the Holy Scriptures

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Amsterdam, : s.n.], 1641

Descrizione fisica

[16] p

Altri autori (Persone)

Du MoulinLewis <1606-1680.>

Soggetti

Church and state - England

Great Britain Religion 17th century Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0158