{"product_id":"toward-better-problems-9780877229483","title":"Toward Better Problems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDevelops a pragmatic approach to the pressing moral issues, addressing practical problems by focusing on specific human concerns and multiple values rather than on abstract philosophical principles. This book showcases the author's method in sustained discussion of four controversial areas: abortion, animal rights, environmentalism, and justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eToward Better Problems\u003ci\u003e is a work of considerable merit.... [Weston] is effective in showing how the 'theoretical' approach obscures the real values at issue and hinders their realization.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJames Gouinlock\u003c\/b\u003e, Emory University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  1. Practical Ethics in a New Key  2. Pragmatic Attitudes   From Puzzles to Problematic Situations *   Reconstructive Strategies *   Integrative Strategies  3. Rethinking the Abortion Debate   Against Drawing Lines *   Multiple Relevant values *   Deciding the Question: An Integrative Approach *   Social Reconstruction and the Abortion Debate  4. Other Animals   \"Speciesism\" *   Outlines of an Integrative Approach *   Reconstructing the Human Relation to Other Animals  5. The Environment   The Need for Environmental Ethics *   \"Intrinsic Values\" in Nature? *   Integrating Environmental Values: Toward an Ecology of Values *   Reconstruction in Environmental Ethics  6. Justice   Justice in Problematic Situations: Between the Prevailing Paradigms *   Some Integrative Methods *   A Reconstructive View: Beyond the Justice Debate  7. Conclusion   The Question of Critical Standpoint *   The Question of Optimism  Notes   Index","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039018025303,"sku":"9780877229483","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780877229483.jpg?v=1750942292","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/toward-better-problems-9780877229483","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}