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Posthumous harm : why the dead are still vulnerable / Raymond Angelo Belliotti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Belliotti, Raymond A., 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Death.
- Respect for persons.
- Dead.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland ; Plymouth, England : Lexington Books, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Reasonable people agree that, other things being equal, it is immoral to fail to fulfill deathbed promises, to maliciously defame the dead, and to mistreat corpses.But philosophical controversy swirls over why such acts are morally wrong.
- Contents:
- ""POSTHUMOUS HARM ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Preface ""; ""Introduction ""; ""1 Classical Writers ""; ""2 The Contemporary Debate: In the Footsteps of Aristotle and Kant ""; ""3 The Feinberg-Pitcher Account ""; ""4 Refinements and Alternatives to the Feinberg-Pitcher Account ""
- ""5 Biological and Biographical Lives """"6 Why Rocky Marciano is Still Vulnerable ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index ""; ""About the Author ""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-31353-3
- 0-7391-7106-2
- OCLC:
- 923689419
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