Intricate Ethics : Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible HarmIn Intricate Ethics, Kamm questions the moral importance of some non-consequentialist distinctions and then introduces and argues for the moral importance of other distinctions. The first section discusses nonconsequentialist ethical theory and the trolley problem; the second deals with the notions of moral status and rights; the third takes up the issues of responsibility and complicity and the possible moral significance of distance; and the fourth section analyzes the views of others in the non-consequentialist and consequentialist camps. |
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... Peter Unger's Living High and Letting Die 190 Section II: Rights 7 Moral Status 227 8 Rights beyond Interests 237 9 Conflicts of Rights: A Typology 285 Section III: Responsibilities 10 Responsibility and Collaboration 305 11 Does Contents.
... Peter Unger's Living High and Letting Die 190 Section II: Rights 7 Moral Status 227 8 Rights beyond Interests 237 9 Conflicts of Rights: A Typology 285 Section III: Responsibilities 10 Responsibility and Collaboration 305 11 Does Contents.
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... Peter Unger's Living High and Letting Die , ” examines Peter Unger's views on the permissibility of harming innocent bystanders and the duty to harm ourselves in order to aid others . It also considers his views on the method of using ...
... Peter Unger's Living High and Letting Die , ” examines Peter Unger's views on the permissibility of harming innocent bystanders and the duty to harm ourselves in order to aid others . It also considers his views on the method of using ...
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... Peter Singer's and Peter Unger's arguments concerning our duty to aid and its independence from distance . The second chapter on the topic , “ The New Problem of Distance in Morality , " argues in detail that , whether or not distance ...
... Peter Singer's and Peter Unger's arguments concerning our duty to aid and its independence from distance . The second chapter on the topic , “ The New Problem of Distance in Morality , " argues in detail that , whether or not distance ...
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... Peter Unger's , I believe , and could be useful in supporting conse- quentialism . My main claim in this chapter is that the harming / not - aiding dis- tinction is neither captured by the loss / no - gain distinction that is employed ...
... Peter Unger's , I believe , and could be useful in supporting conse- quentialism . My main claim in this chapter is that the harming / not - aiding dis- tinction is neither captured by the loss / no - gain distinction that is employed ...
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