Sökning: "Brad Hooker"

Hittade 2 avhandlingar innehållade orden Brad Hooker.

  1. 1. Virtue Ethics, Bioethics, and the Ownership of Biological Material

    Författare :Barbro Björkman; Sven Ove Hansson; Brad Hooker; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Biological material; ownership; rights; organ; donation; property; commodification; kidney; virtue ethics; natural rights; transplantation; transplant; social organisation; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

    Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to show how some ideas in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics can be interpreted and used as a productive way to approach a number of pressing issues in bioethics. Articles I-II introduce, and endorse, a social constructivist perspective on rights (as opposed to the more traditional natural rights idea). LÄS MER

  3. 2. Axiological Investigations

    Författare :Jonas Olson; Sven Danielsson; Erik Carlson; Brad Hooker; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Practical philosophy; axiology; buck-passing; conditionalism; final value; G.E. Moore; intrinsic goodness; intrinsicalism; supervenience; tropes; Praktisk filosofi; Practical philosophy; Praktisk filosofi;

    Sammanfattning : The subject of this thesis is formal axiology, i.e., the discipline that deals with structural and conceptual questions about value. The main focus is on intrinsic or final value. LÄS MER