Faith, Philosophy and Politics
Dr Peter (University of Southampton Johnson
Faith, Philosophy and Politics
Dr Peter (University of Southampton Johnson
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Helen Frowe Help! The Ethics of Rescue offers a non-consequentialist, agent-neutral account of our duty to rescue. It explores moral limits on using ourselves to help others and applies this framework to issues like abortion, war, property rights, and refugee assistance.
Human Motives shows how the sciences of decision and affect support a form motivational hedonism (the theory that everything we do is done in pursuit of pleasure and to avoid pain and displeasure) while making room for both genuine altruism and intrinsic motives of duty.
D.T.J. Bailey here offers a student-friendly guide to Plato's dialogue Phaedo, as part of the Oxford Guides to Philosophy series. In the process of explaining the text, Bailey provides a picture of Plato's metaphysics as revealed by the four major arguments it contains.
