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  1. (1 other version)The Ethics of Killing.Jeff Mcmahan - 2002 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 71 (2):477-490.
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  • Gibt es Pflichten gegen sich selbst?Achim Lohmar - 2005 - Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 30 (1):47-66.
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  • Das Recht auf Leben – nicht nur für Personen.Bernd Ladwig - 2007 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 55 (1):17-39.
    Haben alle Personen und nur Personen ein Recht auf Leben? Diese in der Philosophie vorherrschende Ansicht wird hier im Zuge einer Auseinandersetzung unter anderem mit Robert Spaemann und Peter Singer bestritten. Argumentiert wird für ein inklusives Verständnis des Lebensrechts, das auch viele nichtmenschliche Tiere einschließt. Abschließend werden Konsequenzen für das Menschenrecht auf Leben angedeutet.
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  • (1 other version)Hannah Arendts Kritik der Menschenrechte und ihr "Recht, Rechte zu haben".Stefan Gosepath - 2007 - In Heinrich Böll Stiftung (ed.), Hannah Arendt: Verborgene Tradition - Unzeitgemäße Aktualität? De Gruyter. pp. 279-288.
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  • S.Immanuel Kant - 1969 - In Allgemeiner Kantindex Zu Kants Gesammelten Schriften. Band. 20. Abt. 3: Personenindex Zu Kants Gesammelten Schriften. De Gruyter. pp. 112-126.
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  • Animal Minds and Human Morals: The Origins of the Western Debate.Richard Sorabji - 1993 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
    Sorabji surveys a vast range of Greek philosophical texts and considers how classical discussions of animals' capacities intersect with central questions, not only in ethics but in the definition of human rationality as well.
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  • Über den mehrfachen Sinn von Menschenwürde-Garantien: Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von Artikel 1, Abs. 1 Grundgesetz.Dunja Jaber - 2003 - De Gruyter.
    Dass die Würde des Menschen unantastbar sei, stellt eine der populärsten, aber auch eine der umstrittensten Aussagen des Grundgesetzes dar. Dabei wird eine sachorientierte Diskussion oft durch mehr oder minder unausgewiesene semantische und historische Annahmen blockiert. Aus dieser Beobachtung heraus wird zum einen überlegt, wie sich unterschiedliche Bedeutungen des Ausdrucks "Menschenwürde" unterscheiden und ethischen Fragestellungen resp. Positionen zuordnen ließen. Zum anderen wird die Einführung des Ausdrucks in das Verfassungsrecht nachgezeichnet. Das Hauptaugenmerk gilt dabei Art.1 Abs. 1 Grundgesetz, dessen Gehalt in (...)
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  • Autonomy and self-respect.Thomas Hill - 1991 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    This stimulating collection of essays in ethics eschews the simple exposition and refinement of abstract theories. Rather, the author focuses on everyday moral issues, often neglected by philosophers, and explores the deeper theoretical questions which they raise. Such issues are: Is it wrong to tell a lie to protect someone from a painful truth? Should one commit a lesser evil to prevent another from doing something worse? Can one be both autonomous and compassionate? Other topics discussed are servility, weakness of (...)
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  • Natural Rights Theories. — Their Origin and Development.Richard Tuck - 1979 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 44 (3):572-574.
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  • Animal minds and human morals. The origins of the Western debate.Richard Sorabji - 1993 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 186 (2):293-294.
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  • (2 other versions)The Morality of Freedom.Joseph Raz - 1986 - Philosophy 63 (243):119-122.
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  • Created From Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism.James RACHELS - 1990 - Environmental Values 1 (1):83-86.
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  • (2 other versions)The Morality of Freedom.Joseph Raz - 1986 - Ethics 98 (4):850-852.
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  • Morals by agreement.David P. Gauthier - 1986 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Is morality rational? In this book Gauthier argues that moral principles are principles of rational choice. He proposes a principle whereby choice is made on an agreed basis of cooperation, rather than according to what would give an individual the greatest expectation of value. He shows that such a principle not only ensures mutual benefit and fairness, thus satisfying the standards of morality, but also that each person may actually expect greater utility by adhering to morality, even though the choice (...)
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  • Moral Status As a Matter of Degree?David DeGrazia - 2008 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 46 (2):181-198.
    Some people contend that fetuses have moral status but less than that of paradigm persons. Many people hold views implying that sentient animals have moral status but less than that of persons. These positions suggest that moral status admits of degrees. Does it? To address this question, we must first clarify what it means to speak of degrees of moral status. The paper begins by clarifying the more basic concept of moral status and presenting two models of degrees of moral (...)
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  • Frontiers of justice: disability, nationality, species membership.Martha C. Nussbaum (ed.) - 2006 - Belknap Press.
    Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such theories, addressing the world and its problems, must respond to the real and changing dilemmas of the day. A brilliant work of practical philosophy, Frontiers of Justice is dedicated to this proposition. Taking up three urgent problems of social justice neglected by current theories and thus harder to tackle in practical terms and everyday life, Martha Nussbaum seeks a (...)
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  • Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status.David DeGrazia (ed.) - 1996 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Transcending the overplayed debate between utilitarians and rights theorists, the book offers a fresh methodological approach with specific constructive conclusions about our treatment of animals. David DeGrazia provides the most thorough discussion yet of whether equal consideration should be extended to animals' interests, and examines the issues of animal minds and animal well-being with an unparalleled combination of philosophical rigor and empirical documentation. This book is an important contribution to the field of animal ethics.
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  • Natural Law and Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment.Knud Haakonssen - 1996 - New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.
    This major contribution to the history of philosophy provides the most comprehensive guide to modern natural law theory available, sets out the full background to liberal ideas of rights and contractarianism, and offers an extensive study of the Scottish Enlightenment. The time span covered is considerable: from the natural law theories of Grotius and Suarez in the early seventeenth century to the American Revolution and the beginnings of utilitarianism. After a detailed survey of modern natural law theory, the book focuses (...)
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  • Beyond Prejudice: The Moral Significance of Human and Nonhuman Animals.Evelyn B. Pluhar - 1995 - Durham: Duke University Press.
    In _Beyond Prejudice_, Evelyn B. Pluhar defends the view that any sentient conative being—one capable of caring about what happens to him or herself—is morally significant, a view that supports the moral status and rights of many nonhuman animals. Confronting traditional and contemporary philosophical arguments, she offers in clear and accessible fashion a thorough examination of theories of moral significance while decisively demonstrating the flaws in the arguments of those who would avoid attributing moral rights to nonhumans. Exposing the traditional (...)
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  • Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.Hannah Arendt - 1964 - Science and Society 28 (2):223-227.
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  • Kampf um Anerkennung. Zur moralischen Grammatik sozialer Konflikte.Axel Honneth - 1994 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 56 (3):603-604.
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  • Review of Alan Gewirth: Human Rights: Essays on Justification and Applications[REVIEW]Alan Gewirth - 1984 - Ethics 94 (2):324-325.
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  • (2 other versions)Grundlegung zur metaphysik der sitten.Immanuel Kant - 1785 - Gotha,: L. Klotz. Edited by Rudolf Otto.
    In der 1785 veröffentlichten Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten formuliert Kant erstmals die Prinzipien einer universalistischen Ethik der Autonomie, deren Einfluß bis heute ungebrochen ist. Schon beim Übergang von der gemeinen zur philosophischen Vernunfterkenntnis findet man die Hauptgedanken: In der Ethik geht es nicht primär um das gute Leben und das Glück, und es geht auch zunächst nicht darum, welche Handlungserfolge erzielt werden; Gegenstand moralischer Hochschätzung sind vielmehr Intentionen und Maximen. Gut ist, was für alle vernünftigen Wesen gilt, weil es (...)
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  • (1 other version)The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics.Martha Craven Nussbaum - 1994 - Princeton University Press.
    The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous science aimed both at understanding and at producing the flourishing of human life. In this engaging book, Martha Nussbaum examines texts of philosophers committed to a therapeutic paradigm--including Epicurus, Lucretius, Sextus Empiricus, Chrysippus, and Seneca--and (...)
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  • Natural rights theories: their origin and development.Richard Tuck - 1979 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    This book shows how political argument in terms of rights and natural rights began in medieval Europe, and how the theory of natural rights was developed in the seventeenth century after a period of neglect in the Renaissance. Dr Tuck provides a new understanding of the importance of Jean Gerson in the formation of the theories, and of Hugo Grotius in their development; he also restores the Englishman John Selden's ideas to the prominence they once enjoyed, and shows how Thomas (...)
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  • Hiding From Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law.Martha C. Nussbaum - 2004 - Princeton University Press.
    Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper stickers or wear T-shirts that announce their crimes? This powerful and elegantly written book, by one of America's most influential philosophers, presents a critique of the role that shame and disgust play in our individual and social lives and, in particular, in the law.Martha Nussbaum argues that we should be wary of these emotions because they are associated in (...)
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  • An essay on rights.Hillel Steiner - 1994 - Oxford, UK ;: Blackwell.
    This book addresses the perennial question: What is justice?
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  • (3 other versions)The Case for Animal Rights.Tom Regan - 1985 - Human Studies 8 (4):389-392.
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  • (3 other versions)The case for animal rights.Tom Regan - 2009 - In Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring ethics: an introductory anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 425-434.
    More than twenty years after its original publication, The Case for Animal Rights is an acknowledged classic of moral philosophy, and its author is recognized as the intellectual leader of the animal rights movement. In a new and fully considered preface, Regan responds to his critics and defends the book's revolutionary position.
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  • The Morality of Freedom.Joseph Raz - 1986 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Ranging over central issues of morals and politics and the nature of freedom and authority, this study examines the role of value-neutrality, rights, equality, ...
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  • Women and Human Development.Martha C. Nussbaum - 2003 - Mind 112 (446):372-375.
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  • The Therapy of Desire.Martha C. Nussbaum - 1999 - Philosophical and Phenomenological Research 59 (3):785-786.
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  • Kant and stoic cosmopolitanism.Martha C. Nussbaum - 1997 - Journal of Political Philosophy 5 (1):1–25.
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  • Intricate ethics: rights, responsibilities, and permissible harm.Frances Myrna Kamm - 2007 - New York ;: Oxford University Press.
    In Intricate Ethics, Kamm questions the moral importance of some non-consequentialist distinctions and then introduces and argues for the moral importance of ...
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  • (5 other versions)Principles of biomedical ethics.Tom L. Beauchamp - 1989 - New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by James F. Childress.
    Over the course of its first seven editions, Principles of Biomedical Ethics has proved to be, globally, the most widely used, authored work in biomedical ethics. It is unique in being a book in bioethics used in numerous disciplines for purposes of instruction in bioethics. Its framework of moral principles is authoritative for many professional associations and biomedical institutions-for instruction in both clinical ethics and research ethics. It has been widely used in several disciplines for purposes of teaching in the (...)
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  • Another Cosmopolitanism. Hospitality, Sovereignty, and Democratic Iterations.Seyla Benhabib - 2006 - New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by Jeremy Waldron, Bonnie Honig, Will Kymlicka & Robert Post.
    In these two important lectures, distinguished political philosopher Seyla Benhabib argues that since the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, we have entered a phase of global civil society which is governed by cosmopolitan norms of universal justice--norms which are difficult for some to accept as legitimate since they are sometimes in conflict with democratic ideals. In her first lecture, Benhabib argues that this tension can never be fully resolved, but it can be mitigated through the renegotiation of the (...)
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  • In our image and likeness: humanity and divinity in Italian humanist thought.Charles Edward Trinkaus - 1970 - Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press.
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  • Created from animals: the moral implications of Darwinism.James Rachels - 1990 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    From Bishop Wilberforce in the 1860s to the advocates of "creation science" today, defenders of traditional mores have condemned Darwin's theory of evolution as a threat to society's values. Darwin's defenders, like Stephen Jay Gould, have usually replied that there is no conflict between science and religion--that values and biological facts occupy separate realms. But as James Rachels points out in this thought-provoking study, Darwin himself would disagree with Gould. Darwin, who had once planned on being a clergyman, was convinced (...)
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  • The stupidity of dignity.Steven Pinker - manuscript
    Many people are vaguely disquieted by developments (real or imagined) that could alter minds and bodies in novel ways. Romantics and Greens tend to idealize the natural and demonize technology. Traditionalists and conservatives by temperament distrust radical change. Egalitarians worry about an arms race in enhancement techniques. And anyone is likely to have a "yuck" response when contemplating unprecedented manipulations of our biology. The President's Council has become a forum for the airing of this disquiet, and the concept of "dignity" (...)
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  • Are human rights utopian?James W. Nickel - 1982 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 11 (3):246-264.
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  • Kants Moralphilosophie: die Selbstbezüglichkeit reiner praktischer Vernunft.Klaus Steigleder - 2002 - Stuttgart: Metzler.
    In diesem Buch erscheint Kants Moralphilosophie in neuem Licht. Kants Bestimmung und Begründung des Moralprinzips wird gegen das Gros der bisherigen Forschung als konsistente Argumentation auf hohem Niveau aufgeschlüsselt. Das gut lesbare Buch klärt die Grundbegriffe von Kants Moralphilosophie und lässt sich als Kommentar zu deren als besonders schwierig empfundenen Teilen benutzen.
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  • Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm.F. M. Kamm - 2006 - New York, US: Oxford University Press USA.
    In Intricate Ethics, Kamm questions the moral importance of some non-consequentialist distinctions and then introduces and argues for the moral importance of other distinctions. The first section discusses nonconsequentialist ethical theory and the trolley problem; the second deals with the notions of moral status and rights; the third takes up the issues of responsibility and complicity and the possible moral significance of distance; and the fourth section analyzes the views of others in the non-consequentialist and consequentialist camps.
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  • Autonomy and Self Respect.Thomas E. Hill - 1992 - Philosophy 67 (262):561-563.
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  • (1 other version)Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status.David Degrazia - 1999 - Philosophical Quarterly 49 (195):246-247.
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  • Menschenwürde und das Paradox der Entwürdigung.Ralf Stoecker - 2003 - In Menschenwürde – Annäherungen an einen Begriff. öbv&hpt. pp. 133-151.
    Der Rückgriff auf die Menschenwürde ist in der modernen angewandten Ethik verbreitet, sein Stellenwert ist aber, wie sich auch in vielen Beiträgen dieses Buches zeigt, moraltheoretisch höchst umstritten. Es ist nicht nur unklar, ob die Menschenwürde tatsächlich ein eigenständig zu respektierendes Gut ist, sondern vor allem, was Menschenwürde überhaupt ist und welches Verhalten sie von uns fordert. Diese Unklarheiten wecken wiederum Zweifel daran, ob es sinnvoll ist, der Menschenwürde einen prominenten Platz in der Ethik zuzuweisen (jenseits eines „Präambel- und Bekenntnisdaseins“, (...)
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  • The animal question: why nonhuman animals deserve human rights.Paola Cavalieri (ed.) - 2001 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    How much do animals matter--morally? Can we keep considering them as second class beings, to be used merely for our benefit? Or, should we offer them some form of moral egalitarianism? Inserting itself into the passionate debate over animal rights, this fascinating, provocative work by renowned scholar Paola Cavalieri advances a radical proposal: that we extend basic human rights to the nonhuman animals we currently treat as "things." Cavalieri first goes back in time, tracing the roots of the debate from (...)
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  • Selbstachtung und Menschenwürde.Ralf Stoecker - 2004 - Studia Philosophica 63:107-120.
    Is self-respect a necessary condition for human dignity ? On the one hand, if it were a necessary condition, we could neither respect nor violate the human dignity of small children, severely mentally disabled and unconscious persons, which would certainly be an absurd consequence. On the other hand, it seems to be characteristic for violations of human dignity that they are humiliating for the victim, and humiliation usually is construed as a violation of self-respect. The dilemma is solved when we (...)
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  • Die Zukunft der menschlichen Natur: auf dem Weg zu einer liberalen Eugenik?Jürgen Habermas - 2001 - Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
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  • Menschenrechte: philosophische und juristische Positionen.Hans-Helmuth Gander (ed.) - 2009 - Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber.
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  • Elemente und Ursprünge Totaler Herrschaft.H. ARENDT - 1958
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