Doing and allowing harm /

Doing harm seems much harder to justify than merely allowing harm. If a boulder is rushing towards Bob, you may refuse to save Bob's life by driving your car into the path of the boulder if doing so would cost you your own life. You may not push the boulder towards Bob to save your own life. Th...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Woollard, Fiona (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Sujets:
Values.
Ethics.
Morale.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover; Doing and Allowing Harm; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Part I Analysis of the Doing/Allowing Distinction; 1 Introduction; 2 The Distinction between Doing and Allowing; 3 Substantial Facts; 4 Removing Barriers; 5 Counterexamples and Objections; Part II Defence of the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing; 6 Doing, Allowing, and Imposing; Part III Obligations to Aid; 7 Saving Strangers: Analysis of Intuitions; 8 Saving Strangers: Duties to Prevent Harm; Part IV General Ethical Theories and the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing; 9 Contractualism, Rule Consequentialism, and Doing and Allowing.
  • 10 Final ThoughtsAppendix: A Measure on the Behaviour Space; Bibliography; Index of Cases; Index of Names; Index of Subjects.

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