Rights, restitution, and risk : essays, in moral theory / Judith Jarvis Thomson ; edited by William Parent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomson, Judith Jarvis.

Contributor:

Parent, William.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Physical Description:

x, 269 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986.

Summary:

Moral theory should be simple: the moral theorist attends to ordinary human action to explain what makes some acts right and others wrong, and we need no microscope to observe a human act. Yet no moral theory that is simple captures all of the morally relevant facts.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [263]-[264]

ISBN:

0674769805

0674769813

OCLC:

13010739