Intricate ethics: rights, responsibilities, and permissible harm
Nonconsequentialism -- Aggregation and two moral methods -- Intention, harm, and the possibility of a unified theory -- The doctrines of double and triple effect and why a rational agent need not intend the means to his end -- Toward the essence of nonconsequentialist constraints on harming : modali...
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Format: | Print Book |
Language: | English |
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Oxford [u. a.]
Oxford University Press
2007
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In: | Year: 2007 |
Series/Journal: | Oxford ethics series
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Consequentialism
B Responsibility / Ethics |
Further subjects: | B
Ethics
B ethical argumentation B Ethische Argumentation B Literaturverzeichnis / Bibliographie B Index B Consequentialism (Ethics) B Responsibility B Bibliography |
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Summary: | Nonconsequentialism -- Aggregation and two moral methods -- Intention, harm, and the possibility of a unified theory -- The doctrines of double and triple effect and why a rational agent need not intend the means to his end -- Toward the essence of nonconsequentialist constraints on harming : modality, productive purity, and the greater good working itself out -- Harming people in Peter Unger's Living high and letting die -- Moral status -- Rights beyond interests -- Conflicts of rights : a typology -- Responsibility and collaboration -- Does distance matter morally to the duty to rescue? -- The new problem of distance in morality -- Peter Singer's ethical theory -- Moral intuitions, cognitive psychology, and the harming/not-aiding distinction -- Harms, losses, and evils in Gert's moral theory -- Owing, justifying, and rejecting |
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Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 491 - 497) and index |
Physical Description: | X, 509 S., 24 cm |
ISBN: | 0195189698 |