Moral objectives, rules, and the forms of social change / / David Braybrooke

• Autore: Braybrooke David
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1998; ©1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (381 p.)
• Disciplina: 170
• Soggetto topico: Ethics; Social ethics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Moral Objectives. ; 1. Needs and Interests. ; 2. Two Conceptions of Needs in Marx's Writings. ; 3. Diagnosis and Remedy in Marx's Doctrine of Alienation. ; 4. The Meaning of Participation and of Demands for It. ; 5. Work: A Cultural Ideal Ever More in Jeopardy. ; 6. From Economics to Aesthetics: The Rectification of Preferences. ; 7. Preferences Opposed to the Market: Grasshoppers vs Ants on Security, Inequality, and Justice. ; 8. Liberalism, Statistics, and the Presuppositions of Utilitarianism. ; 9. Justice and Injustice in Business. ; 10. Making Justice Practical. ; 11. The Common Good -- ; pt. II. Rules. ; 12. No Rules without Virtues; No Virtues without Rules.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Fruit from forty years' writing, these essays by David Braybrooke take up an assortment of practical concerns that ethics brings into politics: people's interests; needs along with preferences; work and commitment to work; participation in social life. Essays follow on justice and the common good. Parts II and III of the book deal with settled social rules, devices for securing the objectives just treated. Part II shows that rules go hand in hand with virtues, and, in social phenomena, with causal regularities. Part III captures dialectic in history in a logical analysis of how rules (policies) can be prudent by keeping within incremental limits, yet imaginative enough to escape the recent embarrassments generated by social choice theory."--Jacket.
• Titolo autorizzato: Moral objectives, rules, and the forms of social change
• ISBN: 1-281-99543-6; 9786611995430; 1-4426-7736-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813568603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Toronto studies in philosophy.