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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| Type de support: | Imprimé Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
| Vérifier la disponibilité: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Oxford [u. a.]
Oxford University Press
2007
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| Dans: | Année: 2007 |
| Collection/Revue: | Oxford ethics series
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| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Conséquentialisme
B Responsabilité / Éthique |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Ethics
B ethical argumentation B Ethische Argumentation B Literaturverzeichnis / Bibliographie B Index B Consequentialism (Ethics) B Responsibility B Bibliography |
| Accès en ligne: |
Autorenbiografie (Maison d'édition) Table des matières Quatrième de couverture Verlagsangaben (Maison d'édition) |
| Résumé: | 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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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 491 - 497) and index |
| Description matérielle: | X, 509 S., 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0-19-518969-8 978-0-19-518969-8 |
