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Intricate ethics : rights, responsibilities, and permissable harm / F. M. Kamm.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kamm, F. M., author.
- Series:
- Oxford ethics series.
- Oxford ethics series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics--Social aspects.
- Ethics.
- Consequentialism (Ethics).
- Responsibility.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 509 pages).
- Other Title:
- Rights, responsibilities, and permissable harm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Intricate Ethics, Kamm questions the moral importance of some non-consequentialist distinctions and then introduces and argues for the moral importance of other distinctions. The first section discusses nonconsequentialist ethical theory and the trolley problem; the second deals with the notions of moral status and rights; the third takes up the issues of responsibility and complicity and the possible moral significance of distance; and the fourth section analyzes the views of others in the non-consequentialist and consequentialist camps.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 21, 2017).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029349-7
- 0-19-537195-X
- 0-19-970735-9
- 1-280-84602-X
- 0-19-534590-8
- 1-4294-5925-5
- OCLC:
- 437093728
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