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Killing and Other Dastardly Deeds : Hard Problems for Moral Theory.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hawthorne, John.
- Series:
- Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- A powerful and probing critique of the ethical permissibility of serious harms In Killing and Other Dastardly Deeds , eminent philosopher John Hawthorne rigorously probes the commonsense morality of killing and other serious harms, exposing troubling issues at the foundations of ethical thought.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1. Killing: On the Ethical Significance of Causatives
- 2. Vaccines and Electric Shocks: Contractualists on Harm
- 3. Killing for Burgers. Part 1: Challenges for Absolutism
- 4. Killing for Burgers. Part 2: Some Absolutist Responses
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-28510-1
- OCLC:
- 1587900976
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