Overview

We're all getting older from the moment we're born. Ageing is a fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of life. Yet in ethics, not much work is done on the questions surrounding ageing: how do diachronic features of ageing and the lifespan contribute to the overall value of life? How do time, change, and mortality impact on questions of morality and the good life? And how ought societies to respond to issues of social justice and the good, balancing the interests of generations and age cohorts? In this Cambridge Handbook, the first book-length attempt to stake this terrain, leading moral philosophers from a range of sub-fields and regions set out their approaches to the conceptual and ethical understanding of ageing. The volume makes an important contribution to significant debates about the implications of ageing for individual well-being, social policy and social justice.

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Author:   C. S. Wareham (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781108817042

ISBN 10:   1108817041
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   04 August 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Part I. Ageing and the Good Life: 1. Old age and the preference for the future Jeff McMahan; 2. Ageing and the temporality of the good life Mark Schweda; 3. Children's prudential value Anthony Skelton; 4. The ethics of ageing in Frank Perry's The Swimmer Christopher Hamilton; 5. Is ageing good? Christine Overall; 6. Mental health in old age Simon Keller; 7. In defense of a semi-stoical attitude about ageing and death David De Grazia; Part II. Ageing and Morality: 8. Personhood across the lifespan Søren Holm; 9. African and East Asian perspectives on ageing Thaddeus Metz; 10. Special obligations in long-standing friendships Diane Jeske; 11. Forgiveness and ageing Geoffrey Scarre; 12. Life-extending treatments for people with dementia Nancy S. Jecker; 13. 'Half in love with easeful death': Rational suicide and the elderly L. W. Sumner; Part III. Ageing and Society: 14. 'To Grandmother's house we go': On Women, Ethics, and ageing Samantha Brennan; 15. Ageing, Unequal longevities and intergenerational justice Axel Gosseries; 16. Ageing, Justice, and Work: Alternatives to mandatory retirement Daniel Halliday and Tom Parr; 17. Age and well-being: Ethical implications of the U-curve of happiness Christopher S. Wareham; 18. The desirability and morality of life extension John K. Davis.

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C. S. Wareham is a researcher at the Ethics Institute, Utrecht University, and Honorary Associate Professor at the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, the University of the Witwatersrand. He has published a number of journal articles on ethics and ageing.

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