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Intricate ethics : rights, responsibilities, and permissible harm / F.M. Kamm.

Title
Intricate ethics : rights, responsibilities, and permissible harm / F.M. Kamm.
Author
Kamm, F. M. (Frances Myrna)
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Description
x, 509 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
F.M. Kamm is one of the leading ethical theorists working in philosophy today. In 'Intricate Ethics', she questions the moral importance of some non-consequentialist distinctions and then introduces and argues for the moral importance of other distinctions.
Series Statement
Oxford ethics series
Uniform Title
University press scholarship online.
Subject
  • Consequentialism (Ethics)
  • Ethics
  • Responsibility
  • Ethics
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 491-497) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 0195189698 (alk. paper)
  • 9780195189698 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2005047341
OCLC
  • 58729323
  • SCSB-10230371
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library