Personal Identity and Ethics - A Brief Introduction (Paperback)

Personal Identity and Ethics provides a lively overview of the relationship between the metaphysics of personal identity and ethics. How does personal identity affect our ethical judgments? It is a commonplace to hold that moral responsibility for past actions requires that the responsible agent is in some relevant respect identical to the agent who performed the action. Is this true? On the other hand, can ethics constrain our account of personal identity? Do the practical requirements of moral theory commit us to holding that persons do remain identical over time? Or is it the case that personal identity is not, in fact, relevant to ethics? Shoemaker provides the first comprehensive examination of these issues for the undergraduate audience. Topics include personal identity and prudential rationality; personal identity's significance for moral responsibility and ethical theory; and the practical consequences of accounts of personal identity for issues such as abortion, stem cell research, cloning, advance directives, populations ethics, multiple personality disorder, and the definition of death.

General

Imprint:	Broadview Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	October 2008
Authors:	David Shoemaker
Dimensions:	229 x 151 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-1-55111-882-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality Promotions
LSN:	1-55111-882-3
Barcode:	9781551118826

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