| Suffering and the Beneficent Community: Beyond Libertarianism Contributor(s): Loewy, Erich H. (Author), Thomasma, David C. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0791407454 ISBN-13: 9780791407455 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 171.7 |
| LCCN: 90-46087 |
| Series: Suny Ethical Theory |
| Physical Information: 139 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book grounds ethics in the capacity for suffering shared by all sentient beings, and sees the avoidance and amelioration of suffering as the prima facie condition of moral interaction. Loewy sees social contract as originating in the original nurturing of individuals, and selfhood and autonomy as emerging in the embrace of beneficence. Communities thus have an implicit obligation to their members, which necessitates a just distribution of resources. |