Ethics and Self-Knowledge, 2011 Respect for Self-Interpreting Agents Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy Series, Vol. 26

Preface Fragmentation.-         
1.1 Respect for persons, and persons as ends.-    
1.2 The essence of ‘respect for persons’.-      
1.3 Contemporary challenges.-       
1.3.1 The problem of integration.-    
1.3.2 The problem of ‘personhood’.-    
1.3.3 The problem of Objectification.-    
1.4  The aftermath.-        
2. Discrimination.-        
2.1  Introductory remarks.-       
2.2  Discrimination and procedural unfairness.-     
2.3  Discrimination and intentionality.-      
2.4  Discrimination as an interpretive moral wrong.-    
3. Stereotyping.-         
3.1  A potential counterexample.-       
3.2   Injustice and stereotyping.-      
3.3  Ideological stereotyping.-       
4. Objectification.-         
4.1  Introduction.-        
4.1.1 First stage objectification: instrumentalisation.-   
4.1.2 Second stage objectification: adoption of alien ends.-  
4.1.3 Third stage objectification: ‘Reduction’ and reflection.-  
4.2 Objectification as an interpretive moral wrong.-    
4.3 Objectification, stereotyping and scientific self-knowledge.-   
4.3.1 Marx and commodification.-     
4.3.2 Objectification in genetic research     
5. Recognition.-          
5.1 Hegel on recognition.-       
5.2 Dignity and universal self-consciousness.-     
5.3 Essentialism and political liberalism.-      
6. Inauthenticity.-         
6.1 Liberalism, essentialism and positivism.-      
6.2 Phenomenological essentialism.-     
6.3 Dasein, intelligibility and alienation.-      
6.4 Inauthenticity and objectification.-     
7. Sadism.-         
7.1 Duality andIntentionality.-       
7.2 Being-with-others, the ‘look’.-     
7.3 Modes of instrumentalisation.-       
7.3.1 Indifference.-       
7.3.2 Love, and love’s fragility.-      
7.3.3 Sadism and sexual desire.-      
7.4 Non-complementarity.-      
8. Subjection.-         
8.1 Knowledge, power and recognition.-      
8.2 Self-knowledge and the abuse of power.-     
9. Honesty.-          
10. Conclusion and implications.