The Taste for Ethics: An Ethic of Food Consumption

by Christian Coff

Book Overview

This book marks a new departure in ethics. In our culture ethics has first and foremost been a question of "the good life" in relation to other people. Central to this ethic was friendship, inspired by Greek thought (not least Aristotle), and the caritas concept from the Judaeo-Christian tradition. Later moral philo- phers also included man's relation to animals, and it was agreed that the m- treatment of animals was morally reprehensible. But no...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048171474
• ISBN13: 9789048171477
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"