Detalls del llibre
Friendship, Altruism, and Morality, originally published in 1980, gives an account of "altruistic emotions" (compassion, sympathy, concern) and friendship that brings out their moral value. Blum argues that moral theories centered on rationality, universal principle, obligation, and impersonality cannot capture this moral importance. This was one of the first books in contemporary moral philosophy to emphasize the moral significance of emotions, to deal with friendship as a moral phenomenon, and to challenge the rationalism of standard interpretations of Kant, although Blumâe(tm)s "sentimentalism" owes more to Schopenhauer than to Hume. It was a forerunner to care ethics, and feminist ethics more generally; to virtue ethics; and to subsequent influential interpretations of Kant that attempted to room for altruistic emotion and friendship, and other forms of particularism and partialism. In addition, the work has been widely influential in religious studies, political theory, bioethics, and feminist ethics.
- Autor/a Laurence A. Blum
- ISBN13 9780415570909
- ISBN10 0415570905
- Pàgines 234
- Any Edició 2009
- Fecha de publicación 22/10/2009
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
Ressenyes i valoracions
Friendship, Altruism and Morality (Routledge Revivals) (Alemany, Francès)
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- Laurence A. Blum
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- ROUTLEDGE (2009)
- 9780415570909



