"A bold, creative, provocative, ingenious and important book that will be of tremendous interest to students and teachers of ethical, political and environmental philosophy." - John Seery, Pomona College, California "An excellent and hugely innovative introduction to political philosophy. By asking readers to imagine what our political philosophy might look like to members of a broken future, the book challenges many assumptions about resources and future generations that are implicit yet central to much contemporary political philosophy. The book offers a truly unique perspective, and will be a great benefit to students and teachers.A" - Jonathan Quong, University of Manchester "Mulgan offers a vivid way to bring out the con tingency and context-dependence of our present way of thinking." - The Cambridge Humanities Review "A proclaimed break with the profound anthropocentrism of philosophy of the modern age - opens the thought of what philosophy and ethics might become if it were to create a genealogy of the future." - Year's Work in Critical Cultural Theory 2013

Imagine living in the future in a world already damaged by humankind, a world where resources are insufficient to meet everyone's basic needs and where a chaotic climate makes life precarious. Then imagine looking back into the past, back to our own time and assessing the ethics of the early twenty-first century. "Ethics for a Broken World" imagines how the future might judge us and how living in a time of global environmental degradation might utterly reshape the politics and ethics of the future. This book is presented as a series of history of philosophy lectures given in the future, studying the classic texts from a past age of affluence, our own time. The central ethical questions of our time are shown to look very different from the perspective of a ruined world. The aim of "Ethics for a Broken" World is to look at our present with the benefit of hindsight - to reimagine contemporary philosophy in an historical context - and to highlight the contingency of our own moral and political ideals.
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Imagine living in the future in a world already damaged by humankind, a world where resources are insufficient to meet everyone's basic needs. This title imagines how the future might judge us and how living in a time of global environmental degradation might reshape the politics and ethics of the future.
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Introduction Part I: Rights Lecture 1: Nozick's on rights Lecture 2: Self-ownership Lecture 3: The Lockean proviso Lecture 4: Nozick in the broken world Lecture 5: Nationalism Part II: Utilitarianism Lecture 6: Act utilitarianism Lecture 7: Rule utilitarianism Lecture 8: Well-being and value Lecture 9: Mill on liberty Lecture 10: Utilitarianism and future people Lecture 11: Utilitarianism for a broken world Part III: The Social Contract Lecture 12: Hobbes and Locke Lecture 13: Rawls Lecture 14: Rawls and the future Lecture 15: Rawls in a broken world Part IV: Democracy Lecture 16: Democracy Lecture 17: Democracy and the future
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781844654888
Publisert
2011-10-31
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

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Biografisk notat

Tim Mulgan is Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. His books include Understanding Utilitarianism (Acumen, 2008).