What Makes Us Moral? On the capacities and conditions for being moral
This book addresses the question of what it means to be moral and which capacities one needs to be moral. It questions whether empathy is a cognitive or an affective capacity, or perhaps both. As most moral beings behave immorally from time to time,
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Bert Musschenga Anton van Harskamp Editors
What Makes Us Moral? On the Capacities and Conditions for being Moral
What Makes Us Moral? On the capacities and conditions for being moral
LIBRARY OF ETHICS AND APPLIED PHILOSOPHY VOLUME 31
Editor in Chief Marcus D¨uwell, Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL
Editorial Board Deryck Beyleveld, Durham University, Durham, U.K. David Copp, University of Florida, USA Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research, New York, USA Martin van Hees, Groningen University, Netherlands Thomas Hill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Samuel Kerstein, University of Maryland, College Park, USA Will Kymlicka, Queens University, Ontario, Canada Philippe Van Parijs, Louvaine-la-Neuve (Belgium) en Harvard, USA Qui Renzong, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Peter Schaber, Ethikzentrum, University of Z¨urich, Switzerland Thomas Schmidt, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6230
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Editors Bert Musschenga Faculty of Philosophy VU University Amsterdam The Netherlands
Anton van Harskamp Faculty of Philosophy and Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology VU University Amsterdam The Netherlands
ISSN 1387-6678 ISBN 978-94-007-6342-5 ISBN 978-94-007-6343-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6343-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013939263 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, n
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