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Reading Onora O'Neill
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Reading Onora O'Neill

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-07-24
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Onora O’Neill is one of the foremost moral philosophers writing today. Her work on ethics and bioethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of Kant is extremely influential. Her landmark Reith Lectures on trust did much to establish the subject not only on the philosophical and political agenda but in the world of media, business and law more widely. Reading Onora O’Neill is the first book to examine and critically appraise the work of this important thinker. It includes specially commissioned chapters by leading international philosophers in ethics, Kantian philosophy and political philosophy. The following aspects of O’Neill’s work are examined: global justice Kant the ethics of the family bioethics consent trust. Featuring a substantial reply to her critics at the end of the book, Reading Onora O’Neill is essential reading for students and scholars of ethics and political philosophy.

A Question of Trust
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 116

A Question of Trust

In this 2002 book, Onora O'Neill investigates sources of deception in our society and re-examines questions of press freedom.

A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 157

A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication

Explores how digital technologies have raised new ethical issues for communication.

Constructions of Reason
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Constructions of Reason

This book traces the alleged incoherences to attempts to assimilate Kant's ethical writings to modern conceptions of rationality, actions and rights.

Towards Justice and Virtue
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Towards Justice and Virtue

Towards Justice and Virtue challenges the rivalry between those who advocate only abstract, universal principles of justice and those who commend only the particularities of virtuous lives. Onora O'Neill traces this impasse to defects in underlying conceptions of reasoning about action. She proposes and vindicates a modest account of ethical reasoning and a reasoned way of answering the question 'who counts?', then uses these to construct linked accounts of principles by which we can move towards just institutions and virtuous lives.

Constructing Authorities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

Constructing Authorities

  • Categories: Law

This book is a collection of essays by Onora O'Neill and forms an illuminating commentary of Kant's fundamental philosophical strategy.

Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics

Argues against the conceptions of individual autonomy which are widely relied on in bioethics.

Bounds of Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Bounds of Justice

Argues for a concept of justice that takes account of boundaries, institutions and human diversity.

Reading Onora O'Neill
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 267

Reading Onora O'Neill

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2013-07-24
  • -
  • Publisher: Routledge

Onora O’Neill is one of the foremost moral philosophers writing today. Her work on ethics and bioethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of Kant is extremely influential. Her landmark Reith Lectures on trust did much to establish the subject not only on the philosophical and political agenda but in the world of media, business and law more widely. Reading Onora O’Neill is the first book to examine and critically appraise the work of this important thinker. It includes specially commissioned chapters by leading international philosophers in ethics, Kantian philosophy and political philosophy. The following aspects of O’Neill’s work are examined: global justice Kant the ethics of the family bioethics consent trust. Featuring a substantial reply to her critics at the end of the book, Reading Onora O’Neill is essential reading for students and scholars of ethics and political philosophy.

From Principles to Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 235

From Principles to Practice

Although abstract principles alone cannot guide action, they can be combined to shape good practical judgement and change the world.