Needs and Moral Necessity analyses ethics as a practice, explains why we have three moral theory-types, consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics, and argues for a fourth needs-based theory.
1. Introduction 2. What Ethics Is 3. Ethics as a Practice 4. Meeting Patients Needs 5. The Moral Demandingness of Needs 6. Objections 7. Consequentialism 8. Deontology 9. Virtue Ethics
Soran Reader is Lecturer in Philosophy at Durham University and is editor of
The Philosophy of Need (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
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