Ethics and Self-Knowledge

Ethics and Self-Knowledge

Peter Lucas

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2011
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Ética y filosofía moral
ISBN:
9789400715592

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Preface Fragmentation 1.1 Respect for persons, and persons as ends 1.2 The essence of ’respect for persons’ 1.3 Contemporary challenges 1.3.1 The problem of integration 1.3.2 The problem of ’personhood’ 1.3.3 The problem of Objectification 1.4 The aftermath 2. Discrimination 2.1 Introductory remarks 2.2 Discrimination and procedural unfairness 2.3 Discrimination and intentionality 2.4 Discrimination as an interpretive moral wrong 3. Stereotyping 3.1 A potential counterexample 3.2 Injustice and stereotyping 3.3 Ideological stereotyping 4. Objectification 4.1 Introduction 4.1.1 First stage objectification: instrumentalisation 4.1.2 Second stage objectification: adoption of alien ends 4.1.3 Third stage objectification: ’Reduction’ and reflection 4.2 Objectification as an interpretive moral wrong 4.3 Objectification, stereotyping and scientific self-knowledge 4.3.1 Marx and commodification 4.3.2 Objectification in genetic research 5. Recognition 5.1 Hegel on recognition 5.2 Dignity and universal self-consciousness 5.3 Essentialism and political liberalism 6. Inauthenticity 6.1 Liberalism, essentialism and positivism 6.2 Phenomenological essentialism 6.3 Dasein, intelligibility and alienation 6.4 Inauthenticity and objectification 7. Sadism 7.1 Duality and Intentionality 7.2 Being-with-others, the ’look’ 7.3 Modes of instrumentalisation 7.3.1 Indifference 7.3.2 Love, and love’s fragility 7.3.3 Sadism and sexual desire 7.4 Non-complementarity 8. Subjection 8.1 Knowledge, power and recognition 8.2 Self-knowledge and the abuse of power 9. Honesty 10. Conclusion and implications

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