Persons, interests, and justice
By: Nils Holtug
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780199580170
Description: In our lives, we aim to achieve welfare for ourselves, that is to live good lives. But we also have another, more impartial perspective, where we aim to balance our concern for our own welfare against a concern for the welfare of others. This is a perspective of justice. Nils Holtug examines these two perspectives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-352) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Prudence. Self-interest ; Personal identity ; What matters ; On the value of coming into existence; title: Justice. Welfarism ; Egalitarianism ; Prioritarianism ; Population ethics ; Metaphysics and justice.