Sacrifice and Moral Philosophy

Marcel van Ackeren is an External Investigator at Freiburg’s Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies, a Research Associate at Oxford’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and an Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy in Oxford, UK. He has held visiting positions at Cambridge, Berne and Milan, was Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Greifswald and was Fellow and Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Bioethics at Münster University, Germany. He works in ethics, especially demandingness, history of philosophy, especially ancient and Kantian philosophy and methodology/metaphilosophyAlfred Archer is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The Department of Philosophy and The Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science at Tilburg University, Netherlands. His primary research is in moral philosophy, particularly supererogation (acts beyond the call of duty) and the nature and ethics of admiration. He also has research interests in political philosophy, applied ethics, philosophy of emotion and the philosophy of sport.

• Introduction: Self-Sacrifice and Moral Philosophy1. On the Moral Significance of Sacrifice2. How Morality Becomes Demanding Cost vs. Difficulty and Restriction3. Sacrifice and Relational Well-Being4. When does ‘Can’ imply ‘Ought’?5. Sacrificing Value6. The Value of Sacrifices7. Sentimentalist Practical Reason and Self-Sacrifice8. Demandingness and Boundaries Between Persons9. Rehabilitating Self-Sacrifice: Care Ethics and the Politics of Resistance10. The Cross