INVESTIGADORES
RIVERA LOPEZ Eduardo Enrique
capítulos de libros
Título:
Nonideal Ethics
Autor/es:
EDUARDO RIVERA LÓPEZ
Libro:
International Encyclopedia of Ethics
Editorial:
Wiley-Blackwell
Referencias:
Año: 2013; p. 3626 - 3634
Resumen:
Our world is far from ideal: people kill, steal, and harm others; governments initiate unjust wars; material resources are sometimes scarce or unjustly distributed; and millions of people suffer extreme deprivation for social or natural causes. Any adequate moral theory should be sensitive to these unfortunate facts. It seems obvious that the best or most appropriate actions, rules, and institutions in this nonideal world are different from what they would be in an ideal one. I briefly delineate some problems that ethics and political philosophy face when dealing with imperfect moral agents and institutions.
