The Cambridge Handbook of the Ethics of Ageing

Buch | Softcover

380 Seiten

2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-81704-2 (ISBN)

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As people in the West are living longer and societies are ageing, there is a need to understand the ethical implications for the quality of life of different generations. This authoritative book delves into the ethics of ageing, combining philosophical depth, a clear scope and original contributions from leading authors.

We're all getting older from the moment we're born. Ageing is a fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of life. Yet in ethics, not much work is done on the questions surrounding ageing: how do diachronic features of ageing and the lifespan contribute to the overall value of life? How do time, change, and mortality impact on questions of morality and the good life? And how ought societies to respond to issues of social justice and the good, balancing the interests of generations and age cohorts? In this Cambridge Handbook, the first book-length attempt to stake this terrain, leading moral philosophers from a range of sub-fields and regions set out their approaches to the conceptual and ethical understanding of ageing. The volume makes an important contribution to significant debates about the implications of ageing for individual well-being, social policy and social justice.

C. S. Wareham is a researcher at the Ethics Institute, Utrecht University, and Honorary Associate Professor at the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, the University of the Witwatersrand. He has published a number of journal articles on ethics and ageing.

Part I. Ageing and the Good Life: 1. Old age and the preference for the future Jeff McMahan; 2. Ageing and the temporality of the good life Mark Schweda; 3. Children's prudential value Anthony Skelton; 4. The ethics of ageing in Frank Perry's The Swimmer Christopher Hamilton; 5. Is ageing good? Christine Overall; 6. Mental health in old age Simon Keller; 7. In defense of a semi-stoical attitude about ageing and death David De Grazia; Part II. Ageing and Morality: 8. Personhood across the lifespan Søren Holm; 9. African and East Asian perspectives on ageing Thaddeus Metz; 10. Special obligations in long-standing friendships Diane Jeske; 11. Forgiveness and ageing Geoffrey Scarre; 12. Life-extending treatments for people with dementia Nancy S. Jecker; 13. 'Half in love with easeful death': Rational suicide and the elderly L. W. Sumner; Part III. Ageing and Society: 14. 'To Grandmother's house we go': On Women, Ethics, and ageing Samantha Brennan; 15. Ageing, Unequal longevities and intergenerational justice Axel Gosseries; 16. Ageing, Justice, and Work: Alternatives to mandatory retirement Daniel Halliday and Tom Parr; 17. Age and well-being: Ethical implications of the U-curve of happiness Christopher S. Wareham; 18. The desirability and morality of life extension John K. Davis.

Erscheinungsdatum	25.07.2022
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 245 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-108-81704-1 / 1108817041
ISBN-13	978-1-108-81704-2 / 9781108817042
Zustand	Neuware