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Paperback / softback. New. In this work, Jamie Mayerfeld examines the content of the duty to prevent suffering and the weight it has relative to other moral considerations. He argues that the prevention of suffering is morally more important than the promotion of happiness, and that the duty to relieve suffering is much stronger than most of us acknowledge. ISBN 0195154959 9780195154955 [GB]

ISBN10: 0195154959, ISBN13: 9780195154955, [publisher: Oxford University Press, USA] Softcover
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Oxford University Press, USA 2002 Revised ed. Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Contains: Unspecified. Oxford Ethics.

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ISBN10: 0195154959, ISBN13: 9780195154955, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover
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ISBN10: 0195154959, ISBN13: 9780195154955, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. In this original study, Jamie Mayerfeld undertakes a careful inquiry into the meaning and moral significance of suffering. Understanding suffering in hedonistic terms as an affliction of feeling, he addresses difficulties associated with its identification and measurement. He then turns to an examination of the duty to relieve suffering: its content, its weight relative to other moral considerations, and the role it should play in our lives.Among the claims defended in the book are that suffering needs to be distinguished from both physical pain and the frustration of desire, that interpersonal comparisons of the intensity of happinessand suffering are possible, that several psychological processes hinder our awareness of other people's suffering, and that the prevention of suffering should often be pursued indirectly. Mayerfeld concludes his discussion by arguing that the reduction of suffering is morally more important than the promotion of happiness, and that most of us greatly underestimate the force of the duty to prevent suffering. As the first systematic book-length inquiry into the moralsignificance of suffering, Suffering and Moral Responsibility makes an important contribution to moral philosophy and political theory, and will interest specialists in each of these areas. In this work, Jamie Mayerfeld examines the content of the duty to ...
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