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

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

Kamm, Frances Myrna
Kamm, F. M.

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Series: Oxford Ethics

PhilosophyMedical Reference

ISBN10: 0195144023
ISBN13: 9780195144024
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 4 2001
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Morality, Mortality, Volume II, Kamm continues to explore questions of life and death as illustrations of general issues in moral theory. Resuming her development of non- consequentialist ethical theory and its application to practical ethical problems, she explores the distinction between killing and letting die, between harming and not aiding, and between intending and foreseeing harm. Throughout this examination, she focuses on the methodology used in analyzing these questions. Kamm develops a principled account of when harming some to save others is permissable and impermissable. In the process, she discusses the Survival Lottery and Trolley Problem, and other related dilemmatic situations. Kamm then covers the concepts of rights and prerogatives, contrasting a victim-focused account of rights with that of an agent-relative account. Here, she considers the problem of minimizing rights violations, and the significance of the status of inviolability. She concludes Volume II by assessing whether agreements or superogatory conduct may permissably override restrictions, and what their doing or not doing indicates about morality, duties, and prerogatives.

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