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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
- 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