| Popis: |
This introduction presents the topic, methodology, and aims of the book. The book is about moral reasons and requirements to help others—whether in nearby rescue cases or in everyday cases of donating time and money to help distant strangers. Contrary to act consequentialism, one is not always required to do whatever available act has the best outcome or helps the most. There are non-consequentialist permissions. Nonetheless, there are moral reasons to engage in effective altruism, sometimes even requirements to do so. The introduction includes a significant discussion of methodology, particularly concerning the role of intuitive claims in ethics and the use of “clean” imagined cases. It also provides a brief overview of the book’s chapters, followed by more detailed chapter summaries. |
