Ignorance, Beneficence, and Rights

I argue that ignorance of who will die makes a difference to the ethics of killing. It follows that reasons are subject to ‘specificity’: it can be rational to respond more strongly to facts that provide us with reasons than to the fact that such reasons exist. In the case of killing and letting die...

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Главный автор: Setiya, Kieran (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Brill 2020
В: Journal of moral philosophy
Год: 2020, Том: 17, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 56-74
Другие ключевые слова:B Rights
B Rationality
B Beneficence
B Trolley Problem
B Reasons
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Итог:I argue that ignorance of who will die makes a difference to the ethics of killing. It follows that reasons are subject to ‘specificity’: it can be rational to respond more strongly to facts that provide us with reasons than to the fact that such reasons exist. In the case of killing and letting die, these reasons are distinctively particular: they turn on personal acquaintance. The theory of rights must be, in part, a theory of this relation.
ISSN:1745-5243
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Journal of moral philosophy
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/17455243-20182841