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TOWARD BETTER PROBLEMS
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON ABORTION, ANIMAL RIGHTS, THE ENVIRONMENT AND JUSTICE |
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Anthony Weston |
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Hardback |
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£39.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0877229473 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780877229476 |
| Publisher: |
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS,U.S. |
| Series: |
Ethics & Action |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Synopsis: |
Toward Better Problems is a work of considerable merit.... [Weston] is effective in showing how the 'theoretical' approach obscures the real values at issue and hinders their realization. --James Gouinlock, Emory UniversityIn Toward Better Problems, Anthony Weston develops a pragmatic approach to the pressing moral issues of our time. Weston seeks to address practical problems in the spirit of John Dewey: that is, by focusing on specific human concerns and multiple, overlapping values rather than on abstract philosophical principles. Weston showcases his method in sustained discussion of four highly controversial areas: abortion, animal rights, environmentalism, and justice.Weston takes up uncomfortable issues, such as how we raise food animals; test medicines, cosmetics, and chemicals on animals; and justify speciesism. He engages philosophically the treatment of land and seas as limitless garbage dumps, the creation of radioactive wastes and their disposal, and fundamental problems of social justice. But Weston's aim is not to solve such problems as if they were some kind of puzzle. The aim instead is to creatively transform such problematic situations into something more promising and tractable, thereby leaving us with better problems. |
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US |
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Temple University Press,U.S. |
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Non-returnable |
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