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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| Medienart: | Druck Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Oxford [u. a.]
Oxford University Press
2007
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| In: | Jahr: 2007 |
| Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift: | Oxford ethics series
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| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Konsequentialismus
B Verantwortung / Ethik |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Ethics
B Literaturverzeichnis/Bibliographie B ethical argumentation B Register B Ethische Argumentation B Index B Consequentialism (Ethics) B Responsibility B Bibliography |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 491 - 497) and index |
| ISBN: | 0195189698 |