Intricate ethics : rights, responsibilities, and permissible harm
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
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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