Suffering and moral responsibility:
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Oxford [u.a.]
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2002
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| Physical Description: | XIII, 237 S. |
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Contents
ONE Introduction
3
two The Meaning of Suffering
11
1.
Psychological versus Objectivist Understandings of Suffering
11
2.
Suffering as Disagreeable Overall Feeling
14
3.
In Search of a Definition of Happiness and Suffering
16
4.
The Connection of Happiness and Suffering to Desire
19
5.
The Relation of Happiness to Pleasure and Suffering to Pain
23
6.
Describing Our Lives in Terms of Happiness and Suffering
29
7.
Happiness and Suffering as Absolute, Not Relative, Terms
34
8.
The Variable Intensity of Suffering
39
9.
Suffering Distinct from the Frustration of Desire
43
10.
Suffering Distinct from the Subjective Opinion of Suffering
50
THREE The Measurement of Suffering
55
1.
Other People's Suffering
55
2.
The Question of Cardinal Intensity
60
3.
The Intuitive Measure
61
4.
The Preferential Measure
67
5.
The Global Evaluative Measure
74
6.
The Local Evaluative Measure
80
7.
Conclusion
83
FOUR The Moral Significance of Suffering
85
1.
The Personal and Impersonal Badness of Suffering
85
2.
The Desire Theory of Well-being
93
xii CONTENTS
3.
Value
Hedonism
98
4.
Underestimating the Evil of Suffering
101
5.
Suffering and Deprivation
107
FIVE The Duty To Relieve Suffering 111
1.
The Source of the Duty to Relieve Suffering
111
2.
Other Explanations of the Duty to Relieve Suffering
114
3.
Basic Features of the Duty to Relieve Suffering
116
4.
Indirection
120
5.
The Relief of Suffering in an Uncertain World
125
S
IX The Moral Asymmetry of Happiness and Suffering
128
1.
Introduction
128
2.
The Moral Asymmetry of Happiness and Suffering
Within Lives
131
3.
Epicurus's Hint
136
4.
The Relative Importance of Happiness and Suffering Within
Lives, as Viewed in Terms of the Three Alternative Measures
of Intensity
139
5.
Where Did the Classical Utilitarians Stand?
142
6.
The Moral Asymmetry of Happiness and Suffering across
Lives
145
7.
Explaining Interpersonal Asymmetry
149
8.
The Relative Importance of Happiness and Suffering across Lives, in
Terms of the Evaluative Measure
152
9.
The Priority View, the Appropriate Unit of Concern, and Personal
Identity
154
10.
Life and Death
158
seven Trade-offs Internal to the Duty To Relieve Suffering
162
1.
Introduction
162
2.
Timing
164
3.
Duration
170
4.
Numbers
171
5.
The Agony of One versus the Bliss of Many
176
6.
The Agony of One versus the Less Intense Suffering of Many
182
EIGHT The Limits of the Duty To Relieve Suffering
188
1.
Introduction
188
2.
Underestimating the Duty to Relieve Suffering
189
3.
Consequentialist Limits
193
4.
Deontological Constraints
196
CONTENTS
5. The Limits
of Obligatory Sacrifice
205
6.
Special Obligations
218
7.
Conclusion
224
Bibliography
227
Index
233
In this original study, Jamie Maycrfeld undertakes a careful inquiry into the meaning
and moral significance of suffering. Understanding suffering in hedonistic terms as an
affliction of feeling, he addresses difficulties associated with its identification and
measurement. He then turns to an examination of the duty to relieve suffering: its con¬
tent, its weight relative to other moral considerations, and the role it should play in
our lives.
Among me claims defended in the book are that suffering needs to be distin¬
guished from both physical pain and the frustration of desire,
Ihat
interpersonal
comparisons of the intensity of happiness and suffering are possible, that several psy¬
chological processes hinder our awareness of other people's suffering, and that the
prevention of suffering should often be pursued indirectly. Mayerfeld concludes his
discussion by arguing mat the reduction of suffering is morally more important than
the promotion of happiness, and that most of us greatly underestimate the force of the
duty to prevent suffering.
About the Author
Jamie Mayerfeld is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of
Washington. |
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