Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications
Publisher: Ratio Ethica
Published: May 28, 2020
Place of publication: Copenhagen
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9798624910911
Copyright date: 2020
First sentence: The problem of suffering is the greatest problem of all.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: 1; title: Part I: The Case for Suffering-Focused Ethics; label: 1: Asymmetries Between Happiness and Suffering
title: 13; label: 2: Happiness as the Absence of Suffering
title: 39; label: 3: Creating Happiness at the Price of Suffering Is Wrong
title: 52; label: 4: The Principle of Sympathy for Intense Suffering
title: 60; label: 5: A Moral Realist Case for Minimizing Extreme Suffering
title: 75; label: 6: Other Arguments for Focusing on Suffering
title: 93; label: 7: Biases Against Focusing on Suffering
title: 111; label: 8: Objections Against Focusing on Suffering
title: 141; title: Part II: How Can We Best Reduce Suffering?; label: 9: Uncertainty Is Big
title: 185; label: 10: We Should Be Cooperative
title: 205; label: 11: Non-Human Animals and Expansion of the Moral Circle
title: 214; label: 12: Promoting Concern for Suffering
title: 228; label: 13: The Abolitionist Project
title: 239; label: 14: Reducing S-Risks
title: 247; label: 15: Donating to Reduce Suffering
title: 256; label: 16: Researching the Question
title: 261; label: 17: The Importance of Self-Investment
title: 266; label: 18: What You Can Do
title: 273; label: Recommended Websites
title: 277; label: Acknowledgments
title: 278; label: Bibliography
title: 280