Against Moral Individualism.Elizabeth Jane Bell -2024 -Social Theory and Practice 50 (1):33-55.detailsA central tenet of moral individualism is that only an entity’s intrinsic (non-relational) properties can ground moral status because only intrinsic properties give rise to agent-neutral reasons. However, I show that the two main approaches to making the agent-neutral/agent-relative distinction fail to exclude morally salient relational (extrinsic) properties from giving rise to agent-neutral reasons. As such, moral individualism accounts of moral status are false. Further, arguments that depend on moral individualism’s central tenet—like the argument from “marginal” cases—are unable to defend (...) their thesis by merely claiming that special relations cannot ground moral status. (shrink)
Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice.Hussein M. Adam,Elizabeth Bell,Robert D. Bullard,Robert Melchior Figueroa,Clarice E. Gaylord,Segun Gbadegesin,R. J. A. Goodland,Howard McCurdy,Charles Mills,Kristin Shrader-Frechette,Peter S. Wenz &Daniel C. Wigley (eds.) -2001 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.detailsThrough case studies that highlight the type of information that is seldom reported in the news, Faces of Environmental Racism exposes the type and magnitude of environmental racism, both domestic and international. The essays explore the justice of current environmental practices, asking such questions as whether cost-benefit analysis is an appropriate analytic technique and whether there are alternate routes to sustainable development in the South.
Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice.Hussein M. Adam,Elizabeth Bell,Robert D. Bullard,Robert Melchior Figueroa,Clarice E. Gaylord,Segun Gbadegesin,R. J. A. Goodland,Howard McCurdy,Charles Mills,Dr Kristin Shrader-Frechette,Peter S. Wenz &Daniel C. Wigley -2001 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.detailsThrough case studies that highlight the type of information that is seldom reported in the news, Faces of Environmental Racism exposes the type and magnitude of environmental racism, both domestic and international. The essays explore the justice of current environmental practices, asking such questions as whether cost-benefit analysis is an appropriate analytic technique and whether there are alternate routes to sustainable development in the South.