The Ethics of Relationships

NOTE EDITORE

Relationships are of utmost importance to our lives in that they give rise to various kinds of goods. Yet, they also make us vulnerable to distinct kinds of wrongs and harms. So far, philosophers have given some attention to the topics of friendship, parent-child relationships, and love, but many other kinds of relationships have been neglected. Moreover, philosophical theorizing has mostly focused on the value of relationships, while the wrongs and harms involved in leading a particular relationship have hardly been investigated. Similarly, relationships have been analyzed as rather static phenomena, but once we realize that they wax and wane and can even come to an end, further moral challenges come into view. This edited volume makes a major contribution to establishing an ethics of relationships through its analysis of many different kinds of relationships. The chapters in this collection offer an in-depth understanding of the distinct nature and value of relationships, while also highlighting the dark sides of relationships and their distinct moral intricacies. Contributions cover the relationship to self, sibling relationships, friendships, and romantic partnerships including relationships between former partners. More socially mediated connections are also discussed, such as neighbours, colleagues, students, and teachers, as well as fans and celebrities. In addition, negative relationships-like those between enemies and those between victims and perpetrators-are explored in detail. The final chapters examine relationships with non-human entities, including companion animals and AI systems. Through its wide-ranging coverage and insightful analysis, The Ethics of Relationships significantly broadens the scope of discussion and elucidates the normative significance of relationships.

SOMMARIO

1 - The Relationship with Self2 - Sibling Relationships3 - Friendship and Romantic Relationships: Reflections on a Neglected Difference4 - The Wrongs of Friendship5 - Post-Divorce Duties: What We Owe Ourselves and Our Exes as Former Partners6 - The Relationship between Victim and Perpetrator7 - The Enmity Relationship as Justified Negative Partiality8 - Neighbours9 - Relations between Colleagues: Equal Respect and Unequal Epistemic Authority10 - What's Valuable in the Student-Teacher Relationship?11 - Ethics of Parasocial Relationships12 - Sharing Our Lives with Other Species: The Nature of Our Relationships with Our Animal Companions13 - A New Kind of Relationship? Robots, Humans, and the Good Life

AUTORE

Monika Betzler holds the Chair for Practical Philosophy and Ethics at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich. She has also held visiting positions at Lund University, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Vienna University, Tulane University, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University. Before joining the department at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Betzler was Full Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Bern. She specializes in moral psychology, normative ethics, and normativity more generally. She is currently working on the ethics of personal relationships, the normative significance of personal projects, and empathy as a normative capacity. Her most recent publications have appeared in The Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, the Journal for Applied Philosophy, and The Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. Jörg Löschke holds the Chair for Practical Philosophy at the University of Stuttgart. He has taught at the University of Zurich, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the University of Bern, and Bonn University. Löschke has previously held visiting positions at Princeton University, the University of Washington, and Florida State University. His research focuses on normative ethics, applied ethics, and the philosophy of normativity. At present, he is working on the ethics of personal relationships, relationships with AI, and on the consequentialism/non-consequentialism divide. His work has appeared in journals such as Philosophical Studies, European Journal of Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, and the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198928157
• Dimensioni: 243 x 23.0 x 164 mm Ø 579 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 288