Hobbesian Applied Ethics and Public Policy

Buch | Hardcover

294 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-69163-6 (ISBN)

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The topics addressed in Hobbesian Applied Ethics and Public Policy include the right to die, abortion, same-sex marriage, free speech, terrorism, and international justice. This book will be of interest to Hobbesian scholars, as well as those interested in contemporary issues in applied ethics, political philosophy, and public policy.

Most philosophers and political scientists readily admit that Thomas Hobbes is a significant figure in the history of political thought. His theory was, arguably, one of the first to provide a justification for political legitimacy from the perspective of each individual subject. Many excellent books and articles have examined the justification and structure of Hobbes’ commonwealth, ethical system, and interpretation of Christianity. What is troubling is that the Hobbesian project has been largely missing in the applied ethics and public policy literature. We often find applications of Kantian deontology, Bentham’s or Mill’s utilitarianism, Rawls’s contractualism, the ethics of care, and various iterations of virtue ethics. Hobbesian accounts are routinely ignored and often derided. This is unfortunate because Hobbes’s project offers a unique perspective. To ignore it, when such a perspective would be fruitful to apply to another set of theoretical questions, is a problem in need of a remedy. This volume seeks to eliminate (or, at the very least, partially fill) this gap in the literature.

Not only will this volume appeal to those that are generally familiar with Hobbesian scholarship, it will also appeal to a variety of readers that are largely unfamiliar with Hobbes.

Shane D. Courtland currently works at West Virginia University. His publications have appeared in　Pacific Philosophical Quarterly,　Journal of Environmental Philosophy,　Journal of Applied Philosophy,　Journal of Mind and Behavior,　Southwest Philosophy Review,　Hobbes Studies,　Reason Papers,　Utilitas,　Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Routledge’s Ethics in Politics.　

Introduction

Shane D. Courtland

Section I: Core Issues in Application

A Hobbesian Approach to Public Policy
Susanne Sreedhar

Applied Ethics: A Challenge to Contractarianism?
Daniel Eggers

Legislating Death: A Problem in Thomas Hobbes’s Argument and its Relevance for Contemporary Democracies
Eva Odzuck

Section II: Medical Ethics

Hobbesian Medical Ethics
Rosamond Rhodes

Hobbes and Physician-Assisted Suicide: Between the Pains of Life and Death
Joanne Boucher

Hobbes and Informed Consent in Medicine
Marcus Adams

Section III: Local Issues in Applied Ethics and Public Policy

Hobbes on the Ethic and Jurisprudence of Life
Kody Cooper

Cheers by Command of the Sovereign: A Hobbesian Approach to Alcohol
Michael Krom

Hobbes Comes Out for Equal Marriage
Eleanor Curran

Section IV: Political Issues in Public Policy

Hobbes and Free Speech
David van Mill

Hobbes and the Welfare State
Jan Narveson

Hobbes on Serious Crime
Tom Sorell

Section V: Group Pluralism and Public Policy

A Hobbesian Response to Terrorism
Jeremy Anderson

Hobbesian Holdouts
Peter Vanderschraaf

Between Two Masters: Hobbes’s Views on International Relations

Gabrielle Stanton

Erscheinungsdatum	16.03.2018
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-138-69163-1 / 1138691631
ISBN-13	978-1-138-69163-6 / 9781138691636
Zustand	Neuware