Splitting the Difference: Compromise and Integrity in Ethics and Politics - Hardcover

Benjamin, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0700604146 ISBN 13: 9780700604142

Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas, 1990

Synopsis

"Like fire and secrecy," writes Martin Benjamin, "compromise is both indispensable and dangerous to civilized life." Using wide-ranging examples drawn from current debates--including a variety of important medical and bioethical cases--he explores the surprisingly rich and complex notion of compromise and integrity in ethics and politics. He tackles tough questions--how practical and theoretical ethics are related, what compromise means for ethical theory, how compromise is a matter of judgment, and whether it is possible to compromise without being compromised. In the final chapter he explores the possibility of political compromise in a matter of great ethical significance--abortion.

About this title

From the Back Cover

"Bold and exciting. . . .This is by far the best book dealing with compromise. It reads beautifully and opens up all sorts of important new approaches for the applied ethicist. . . . It will be well-received and much discussed."--Mike W. Martin, author of Self-Deception and Morality and coauthor of Ethics in Engineering

About the Author

Martin Benjamin, coauthor of Ethical Issues at the Outset of Life (with William Weil) and Ethics in Nursing (with Joy Curtis), is professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. He has been an NEH fellow at the Hastings Center and is a member of the Legislative Task Force on Death and Dying of the Michigan House of Representatives and chair of the Ethics and Social Impact Committee of the Transplant Policy Center at the University of Michigan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0700604146
• ISBN 13: 9780700604142
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208