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Intricate ethics : rights, responsibilities, and permissible harm
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Intricate ethics : rights, responsibilities, and permissible harm

Author: F M Kamm
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2007.
Series: Oxford ethics series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Questions the moral importance of some non-consequentialist distinctions, and then introduces and argues for the moral importance of other distinctions. This book provides an introduction to  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: F M Kamm
ISBN: 0195189698 9780195189698
OCLC Number: 58729323
Description: x, 509 p. ; 25 cm.
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
Series Title: Oxford ethics series.
Responsibility: F.M. Kamm.
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...an impressive and important book. Rob Lawlor Mind Vol 118 Oct 2009 [Kamm] is the most sophisticated of the contemporary exponents of "intuitionist" or "non-consequentalist" ethics... No one makes Read more...

 
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