Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

1998

Abstract

This book elaborates an ethic in which beneficence on a personal and communal level has moral force; proposes the idea of an interplay between compassion and reason to help address moral problems; and sketches the conditions necessary for a democratic approach to such problems.

Comments

This review was originally published in Ethics in 1998.

Peer Reviewed

1

Copyright

University of Chicago Press

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