Ethics for Disaster
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7964-2 (ISBN)
This second edition presents four new chapters about disaster-as-risk, focusing on climate change; more intense confrontation by the elements of earth, air, fire and water; the COVID-19 pandemic; and innocent victims and refugees. Now more than ever, we need good and just moral principles to guide us through the disruptive crises ahead. Where standard ethical frameworks and government action fail to address new issues and guide just choices, humanism and humanitarianism become vital for deciding what we owe innocent victims and climate refugees.
Combining moral philosophy, political theory, public policy, and environmental science, Ethics for Disaster presents new ways to think about changes in the world we all share.
Naomi Zack is professor of philosophy at Lehman College, CUNY. Her recent books are: Ethics and Race: Past and Present Intersections and Controversies, The American Tragedy of COVID-19: Social and Political Crises of 2020, Progressive Anonymity: From Identity Politics to Evidence-Based Government , and Reviving the Social Compact: Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics.
Preface to the Second Edition and Acknowledgements
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface to the First Edition and Acknowledgements
Book Introduction and Overview of parts and chapters
Part I: Ethics
Disaster Planning: Is Saving the Greatest Number Best?
Lifeboat Ethics and Disaster: Should We Blow Up the Fat Man?
Virtues for Disaster: Mitch Rapp and Ernest Shackleton
Part II: Politics
The Social Contract: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Art Spiegelman
Public Policy: Snakes on a Plane, Fire in the Pentagon, and Disaster Rights
The Disadvantaged and Disaster: Hurricane Katrina
Part III: The New Disaster-as-Risk World
Climate Change: Understanding the basics, including economics.
Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: The elements of disaster
COVID-19 and Minorities: How the worse-off fare worst
Innocent victims and refugees: Moral and Practical questions
Conclusion: A Code of Ethics for Disaster, its Implications, and the Global Water Crisis
Postscript to 2nd edition
Postscript to the 1st edition
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 238 mm |
| Gewicht | 508 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5381-7964-4 / 1538179644 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-7964-2 / 9781538179642 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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