Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality
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Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality

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eBook - ePub

Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality

About this book

This volume gathers essays from leading scholars to discuss partiality in ethics. The chapters examine the virtuous and vicious ways in which we relate to those close to us.

There has long been a puzzle in ethics concerning the balance between our general moral obligations to everyone and our specific moral obligations to a smaller subset of people: our family, our nation, and our friends. There has been longstanding tension between the moral intuition that equality entails that we have the same moral duties to everyone and the moral intuition that special obligations entail that we have much greater duties to those close to us. The chapters in this volume discuss varying perspectives on partiality within a wide range of relationships. Section 1 offers overarching visions of partiality. Section 2 examines how roles and relationships might shape partiality. Section 3 focuses on the potential moral dangers and pitfalls of partiality. Finally, Section 4 looks at specific applications of partiality expressed as our loyalty to country, religion, sports teams, and employers.

Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of religion.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032493695
eBook ISBN
9781003812579
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication Page
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Preface
  10. Introduction
  11. Section 1 Overarching Visions of Partiality
  12. Section 2 How Roles and Relationships Might Shape Partiality
  13. Section 3 The Moral Dangers of Partiality
  14. Section 4 Specific Applications of Partiality: Loyalty to Country, Religion, Sports Team, and Employer
  15. Index