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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Drug(s)
- recreational drug use
- ethics
- morality
- moral status
- morally wrong
- harm-based
- non-harm-based
- brain damage
- drug-related deaths
- drug-related crimes
- legalism
- blocking basic goods
- instrumentalize
- instrumentalization
- drug addiction
- degradation
- undignified goal
- unearned pleasure
- unnatural
- drug
- Moral
- types
Reviews
"Anyone who still believes that the moderate use of recreational drugs is morally wrongful should read Lovering's thorough argument to the contrary." - Doug Husak, Rutgers University, USA
"This book fills a void. Lovering lays out the most important arguments for the view that recreational drug use is morally wrong. He then argues, in a philosophically sophisticated and empirically informed way, that none of those arguments is successful. This is a most impressive book, and any future attempt to argue that recreational drug use is morally wrong will have to involve an attempt to answer Lovering's contentions." - Michael Tooley, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
"Rob Lovering's new book is a masterpiece. This is one of the most accessible, thoughtful, delightful additions to the war on the war on drugs that I've seen in years. This book really turned my head around." - Mitch Earleywine, State University of New York, Albany, USA, and host of Cannabis Radio's "Burning Issues"
About the author
Rob Lovering is Associate Professor of Philosophy at College of Staten Island, City University of New York, USA. He is the author of God and Evidence: Problems for Theistic Philosophers as well as numerous articles on ethics and the philosophy of religion.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Moral Defense of Recreational Drug Use
Authors: Rob Lovering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137528681
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54876-4Published: 13 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52868-1Published: 12 August 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 218
Topics: Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Law, general, Social Sciences, general