Originally published in 1980 this book argues that we are all responsible for the harm we could have prevented and explores the effect of this conclusion on a morality which makes fundamental the belief that we ought not to harm others if we can possibly avoid it. A theory of responsibility is developed and defended which has consequences for the way we live as well as for a number of problems in contemporary moral, political and social philosophy, and in jurisprudence. In particular, the author attacks the view that there is a moral difference between killing and letting die and proposes a radical conception of violence. Among other controversial issues covered in the book are neutrality, the ethics of organ transplants and the allocation of scarce resources.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780367469016
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-367-46901-6
- Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.06.2022
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2022
- Serie: Routledge Library Editions: Ethics
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 272 g
- Seiten: 188
- Format (B x H x T): 156 x 234 x 10 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt