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Person, Polis, Planet - Essays in Applied Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Person, Polis, Planet - Essays in Applied Philosophy (Hardcover)
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This volume collects thirteen of David Schmidtz's essays on the
question of what it takes to live a good life, given that we live
in a social and natural world. Part One defends a non-maximizing
conception of rational choice, explains how even ultimate goals can
be rationally chosen, defends the rationality of concern and regard
for others (even to the point of being willing to die for a cause),
and explains why decision theory is necessarily incomplete as a
tool for addressing such issues.
Part Two uses the tools of analytic philosophy to explain what we
can do to be deserving, what is wrong with the idea that we ought
to do as much good as we can, why mutual aid is good, but why the
welfare state does not work as a way of institutionalizing mutual
aid, and why transferring wealth from those who need it less to
those who need it more can be a bad idea even from a utilitarian
perspective. Most ambitiously, Part Two offers an overarching,
pluralistic moral theory that defines the nature and limits of our
obligations to each other and to our individual selves.
Part Three discusses the history and economic logic of alternative
property institutions, both private and communal, and explains why
economic logic is an indispensable tool in the field of
environmental conflict resolution. In the final essay, Schmidtz
brings the volume full circle by considering the nature and limits
of our obligations to nonhuman species, and how the status of
nonhuman species ought to enter into our deliberations about what
sort of life is worth living.
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