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Ethical Necessities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2011

Soran Reader
Soran Reader*
Affiliation:
Durham University
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Abstract

In this paper I introduce my work in ethics, inviting others to draw on my approach to address the ethical issues that concern them. I set up the Centre for Ethical Philosophy at Durham University in 2007 to plug a puzzling gap in philosophical work to help us help the world. In 1. I set out ethical philosophy. In 2. I consider some implications, for example, that to do good we must pay much more attention to the beings around us, less to ourselves. In 3. I consider the implications for how we should think about war and peace. In 4. I draw out some implications for good political practice. In 5. I consider objections and conclude.

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Research Article
Information
Philosophy , Volume 86 , Issue 4 , October 2011 , pp. 589 - 607
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2011

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1 To give an idea of the range and creativity of these attentions, see for example Allnutt's, GillianThe Galloping Stone (Newcastle: New Writing North, 2010)Google Scholar. Allnutt is a poet who in this volume works with victims of torture in profoundly respectful, yet also thoughtful and creative, ways.

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