Ending midlife bias new values for old age
As average lifespans stretch to new lengths, how are human values impacted? Should our values change over the course of our ever-increasing lifespans? Nancy S. Jecker introduces a new concept, the life stage relativity of values, which holds that at different life stages, different ethical concerns...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2020
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | As average lifespans stretch to new lengths, how are human values impacted? Should our values change over the course of our ever-increasing lifespans? Nancy S. Jecker introduces a new concept, the life stage relativity of values, which holds that at different life stages, different ethical concerns should take centre stage. For Jecker, the privileging of midlife values raises fundamental problems of fairness, and reveals large gaps in ethical principles and theories. Jecker introduces a new philosophical framework that reflects the life stage relativity of values and shows its relevance to practice and policy |
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| Beschreibung: | xiii, 344 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780190949075 978-0-19-094907-5 |