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After the terror
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After the terror
TED HONDERICH
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
© Ted Honderich, 2002
Edinburgh University Press Ltd
22 George Square, Edinburgh
Typeset in Linotype Palatino
by Koinonia, Manchester, and
printed and bound in Great Britain
by The Bath Press, Bath
A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 0 7486 1667 5 (hardback)
The right of Ted Honderich to be identified as author
of this work has been asserted in accordance with
the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Contents
Acknowledgements
vii
1. GOOD LIVES, BAD LIVES
Living longer
1
Other great goods
4
Half-lives and under-fives
6
Necessary inquiry
7
Less than half-lives, and a reason
12
Reassuring ourselves
14
Quarter-lives
16
Larger numbers
18
Great goods again
20
More reassurance?
22
Not an omission
24
2. NATURAL AND OTHER MORALITY
Natural morality
30
More to natural morality, and its inescapability
34
Worked-out moralities
37
Libertarianism
40
Liberalism
46
The principle of humanity
51
3. DID WE WRONG THEM? DO WE WRONG THEM?
Political realism
58
A morality of relationship
61
A general distinction, and a mystery
63
Libertarianism, liberalism, humanity again
69
Acts and omissions
73
Causes and conditions
76
Good intentions
78
Another hope, and a conclusion or two
81
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