"Like fire and secrecy," writes Martin Benjamin, "compromise is both indispensable and dangerous to civilized life." Using wide-ranging examples drawn from current debates--including a variety of important medical and bioethical cases--he explores the surprisingly rich and complex notion of compromise and integrity in ethics and politics. He tackles tough questions--how practical and theoretical ethics are related, what compromise means for ethical theory, how compromise is a matter of judgment, and whether it is possible to compromise without being compromised. In the final chapter he explores the possibility of political compromise in a matter of great ethical significance--abortion.
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"Bold and exciting. . . .This is by far the best book dealing with compromise. It reads beautifully and opens up all sorts of important new approaches for the applied ethicist. . . . It will be well-received and much discussed."--Mike W. Martin, author of Self-Deception and Morality and coauthor of Ethics in Engineering
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Martin Benjamin, coauthor of Ethical Issues at the Outset of Life (with William Weil) and Ethics in Nursing (with Joy Curtis), is professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. He has been an NEH fellow at the Hastings Center and is a member of the Legislative Task Force on Death and Dying of the Michigan House of Representatives and chair of the Ethics and Social Impact Committee of the Transplant Policy Center at the University of Michigan.
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We may at the outset distinguish three significantly different uses of the term "compromise": compromise as outcome; compromise as process; and compromise as betrayal. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nondeferrable decision, competing comprehensive theories, moral chameleon, mental connectedness, nonmoral interests, extreme conservative position, external compromise, external integrity, factual uncertainty, prochoice activists, integrity preserving, prolife activists, opposing world views, conflicting world views, moral compromise, particular world view Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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We may at the outset distinguish three significantly different uses of the term "compromise": compromise as outcome; compromise as process; and compromise as betrayal. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nondeferrable decision, competing comprehensive theories, moral chameleon, mental connectedness, nonmoral interests, extreme conservative position, external compromise, external integrity, factual uncertainty, prochoice activists, integrity preserving, prolife activists, opposing world views, conflicting world views, moral compromise, particular world view Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York Times, Marsha Hocking, Nurse Chapman, Platonic Quest, United States, Supreme Court, Ann Chapman, Ivan Ilych, Bernard Williams, Doctrine of Moral Harmony, Operation Rescue, The Cancer Society, Ralph Nader, Modest Means, Joan Claybrook Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Abortion and Social Responsibility: Depolarizing the Debate (Studies in Feminist Philosophy) by Laurie Shrage in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Democratic Autonomy: Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy (Oxford Political Theory) by Henry S. Richardson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Meaningful Work: Rethinking Professional Ethics (Practical and Professional Ethics Series) by Mike W. Martin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Socially Responsive Self: Social Theory and Professional Ethics by Larry May on page 167, and Back Matter
- Democratic Autonomy: Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy (Oxford Political Theory) by Henry S. Richardson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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