Rethinking the Value of Humanity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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To treat some human beings as less worthy of concern and respect than others is to lose sight of their humanity. But what does this moral blindness amount to? What are we missing when we fail to appreciate the value of humanity?The essays in this volume offer a wide range of competing, yet overlapping, answers to these questions. Some essays examine influential views in the history of Western philosophy. In others, philosophers currently working in ethics develop and defend their own views. Some essays appeal to distinctively human capacities. Others argue that our obligations to one another are ultimately grounded in self-interest, or certain shared interests, or our natural sociability. The philosophers featured here disagree about whether the value of human beings depends on the value of anything else. They disagree about how reason and rationality relate to this value, and even about whether we can reason our way to discovering it. This rich selection of proposals encourages us to rethink some of our own deepest assumptions about the moral significance of being human.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-03-13
Mått237 x 162 x 35 mm
Vikt812 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor458
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197539361

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Sarah Buss is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. She is the author of articles on autonomy, moral responsibility, practical rationality, respect for persons, and various issues in ethics, and co-editor of The Contours of Agency: Essays on Themes from Harry Frankfurt (2001).Nandi Theunissen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. She works on foundational topics in ethics, with a focus on the nature of value, and is the author of The Value of Humanity (OUP, 2020), as well as essays on Kant's moral philosophy, regress arguments, moral realism, and the nature of well-being.

AcknowledgementsList of Contributors IntroductionSarah Buss 1. Decomposing HumanityJon Garthoff 2. Do the Ancients See Value in Humanity?Richard Bett 3. Spinoza's Anti-Humanism: Human Value and Dignity Yitzhak Melamed 4. Slavery, Freedom, and Human Value in Early Modern PhilosophyJulia Jorati 5. Valuing Humanity in 'Common Life': Grotius and Pufendorf on Equal 'Sociable' DignityStephen Darwall 6. The Dignity of HumanityRalf M. Bader 7. Great Beyond All ComparisonKenneth Walden 8. Fichte on the Value of Rational AgencyMichelle Kosch 9. Explaining the Value of Human BeingsL. Nandi Theunissen 10. Are We of Equal Moral Worth?Andrea Sangiovanni 11. The Normative Significance of HumanityPeter Railton 12. Finding the Humean Value in Humean HumanityDon Garrett 13. Other PeopleKieran Setiya 14. Learning from Love: Reasoning, Respect, and the Value of a PersonKyla Ebels-Duggan 15. The Invention of Value and the Value of HumanityElijah Millgram 16. The Human Foundations of our Political Ideals: An Essay on Gandhi's Political RadicalismAkeel Bilgrami Index

Some philosophers hold, with Kant, that humanity (and perhaps only humanity) has priceless value. This special worth, they claim, underwrites the importance of morality. But precisely what is this value? How do we acquire knowledge of it? This collection offers a rich discussion of Kant's framework, pre-Kantian conceptions of value, and a wide range of post-Kantian and contemporary theories. It should be essential reading for all students of ethics.