Life-Prolonging Killings and their Relevance to Ethics
What makes killing morally wrong? And what makes killing morally worse than letting die? Standard answers to these two questions presuppose that killing someone involves shortening that person's life. Yet, as I argue in the first two sections of this article, this presupposition is false: Life-...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
1999
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 1999, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 135-147 |
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B Deontology B Harm B Action theory B agent-relative restrictions B Moral Theory B constraints B Consequentialism B Francis M. Kamm |
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