Titlebook: Ethics Matters; Ethical Issues in Pr Nicholas Rescher Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17133-8Closely akin to the ancient Protagoras-Euathlus paradox of contractual obligation is a doctrine clash that arose among Renaissance jurists regarding the conception of sovereign immunity. This principle is encapsulated in a precept of Roman jurisprudence law to the effect that .: the king can do no wrong; he is “above the law.”

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Personhood,Man is an animal and . a mammalian species. But man is not . that, but is a person as well. And this means that we must be able to do—at least sometimes—those sorts of things that mark a person as such and differentiate them from the rest of creation.

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The Ethical Import of Value Attribution,Are our human values—ethical values included—subjective and do they lie entirely “in the eye of the beholder”? Actually, there are good reasons for thinking that this is not in fact the case. And to see why this is so, one does best to begin with looking at the idea of what valuation is all about.

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The Rational Validation of Ethical Values,Can ends, goals, and values themselves be subject to rational evaluation? In an oft-cited passage in Book III of the ., Aristotle wrote:

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Ancestor Worship?,What do we owe to our predecessors? What duties and obligations do we have to those who have preceded us and produced the manifold of physical, social, and cultural artifice in which we live our lives?

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An Ethical Paradox,If asked for fundamental principles of ethics, most theorists would unhesitatingly include the following two:

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