Morality, Mortality, Volume II: Rights, Duties, and Status

✍ Scribed by Frances Myrna Kamm

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 400
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Kamm applies her non-consequentialist theory to practical ethical problems involving life and death, including the distinction between killing and letting die, and the permissibility of harming some to save others.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
PART I
1. Killing and Letting Die: Methodology of Comparable Cases and Conceptions of Moral Equivalence
2. Killing and Letting Die: Arguments for Inequivalence and the Problem of Contextual Interaction
3. Objections and Conceptions of Moral Equivalence
4. Killing and Letting Die in Standardly Equalized Cases
5. Harming, Not Aiding, and Positive Rights
PART II
6. The Trolley Problem
7. Harming Some to Save Others
PART III
8. Prerogatives and Restrictions
9. Constraints and You
10. Constraining Rights and the Value of Status
11. Agreements
12. Supererogation, Obligation, and Intransitivity
Bibliography
Index
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