Partiality /
We are partial to people with whom we share special relationships--if someone is your child, parent, or friend, you wouldn't treat them as you would a stranger. But is partiality justified, and if so, why? Partiality presents a theory of the reasons supporting special treatment within special r...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
©2013.
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| Series: | Princeton monographs in philosophy.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | We are partial to people with whom we share special relationships--if someone is your child, parent, or friend, you wouldn't treat them as you would a stranger. But is partiality justified, and if so, why? Partiality presents a theory of the reasons supporting special treatment within special relationships and explores the vexing problem of how we might reconcile the moral value of these relationships with competing claims of impartial morality. Simon Keller explains that in order to understand why we give special treatment to our family and friends, we need to understand how people come to matter in their own rights. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-160) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400846382 1400846382 1299557945 9781299557949 |