Title: The limits of kindness /
Authors: Hare, Caspar John, 1972-
Year: 2013
Subjects: Normativity (Ethics); Conduct of life.
Abstract: Caspar Hare presents a bold and original approach to questions of what we ought to do, and why we ought to do it. He breaks with tradition to argue that we can tackle difficult problems in normative ethics by starting with a principle that is humble and uncontroversial. Being moral involves wanting particular other people to be better off.
Contents: The good will -- First steps : the morality of rescue -- Rational responses to sweetening insensitive preferences -- Efficiency and the greater good -- The same-number non-identity problem -- Killing-to-prevent-killings -- Robust essences -- Rational constraints on desire-like attitudes -- Morphing -- Transparent conflicts -- Morphing, infinity, and the limits of good will -- Distance and need -- Ignorance and indeterminacy -- Commitment.