The Taste for Ethics - An Ethic of Food Consumption (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)

This book marks a new departure in ethics. In our culture ethics has first and foremost been a question of the good life' in relation to other people. Central to this ethic was friendship, inspired by Greek thought, and the caritas concept from the Judaeo-Christian tradition. But no early moral teaching discussed man's relation to the origin of foodstuffs and the system that produced them; doubtless the question was of little interest since the production path was so short. Before industrialisation the production of food was easy to follow. As a rule that is no longer the case. The field of ethics must therefore be extended to cover responsibility for the production and choice of foodstuffs, and it is this food ethic that Christian Coff sets out to trace. In doing so he shows how the focus of ethics can be expanded from its concern for the good life with and for others to cover the good life in fair food production practices...

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, 7
Release date:	February 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	Christian Coff
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	212
Edition:	2006 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-4553-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
LSN:	1-4020-4553-0
Barcode:	9781402045530

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