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| Ethics, philosophy: ethics is concerned with the evaluation and justification of actions and ultimately a justification of morality. See also good, values, norms, actions, deontology, deontological logic, consequentialism, morals, motives, reasons, action theory._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Jonathan Glover on Ethics - Dictionary of Arguments
Singer I 234 Ethics/Glover: (J. Glover (1975)(1)): Thesis: Ignoring unmeasurable damage misleads us. For example, a village with a hundred inhabitants who each eat one hundred beans is attacked by a hundred hungry bandits. Each bandit grabs a bowl of beans and empties it. A week later, they plan to repeat the same thing, but - plagued by guilt - each of them is to take only one bean from each bowl, so that no perceptible harm is done to the individual. In the end, however, every inhabitant of the village is equally poorer by one hundred beans, and the responsibility is only apparently diminished. >Climate change/Singer, P., >Climate change, >Statistics, >Distribution Function, >Causation, >Climate Damage, >Responsibility. 1. J. Glover (1975). „It makes no difference whether or not I do it“ in: Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Suppl. Vol. XLIX._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Glov I Jonathan Glover I: Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity London 1991 SingerP I Peter Singer Practical Ethics (Third Edition) Cambridge 2011 SingerP II P. Singer The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically. New Haven 2015 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-20