Sacrifice and Moral Philosophy

Marcel van Ackeren is an External Investigator at Freiburg’s Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies, a Research Associate at Oxford’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and an Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy in Oxford, UK. He has held visiting positions at Cambridge, Berne and Milan, was Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Greifswald and was Fellow and Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Bioethics at Münster University, Germany. He works in ethics, especially demandingness, history of philosophy, especially ancient and Kantian philosophy and methodology/metaphilosophy Alfred Archer is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The Department of Philosophy and The Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science at Tilburg University, Netherlands. His primary research is in moral philosophy, particularly supererogation (acts beyond the call of duty) and the nature and ethics of admiration. He also has research interests in political philosophy, applied ethics, philosophy of emotion and the philosophy of sport.

Introduction: Self-Sacrifice and Moral Philosophy
1. On the Moral Significance of Sacrifice
2. How Morality Becomes Demanding Cost vs. Difficulty and Restriction
3. Sacrifice and Relational Well-Being
4. When does ‘Can’ imply ‘Ought’?
5. Sacrificing Value
6. The Value of Sacrifices
7. Sentimentalist Practical Reason and Self-Sacrifice
8. Demandingness and Boundaries Between Persons
9. Rehabilitating Self-Sacrifice: Care Ethics and the Politics of Resistance
10. The Cross