Violence and Responsibility (eBook)

John Harris (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
188 Seiten
Taylor and Francis (Verlag)
978-1-000-04987-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Originally published in 1980 this book argues that we are all responsible for the harm we could have prevented and explores the effect of this conclusion on a morality which makes fundamental the belief that we ought not to harm others if we can possibly avoid it. A theory of responsibility is developed and defended which has consequences for the way we live as well as for a number of problems in contemporary moral, political and social philosophy, and in jurisprudence. In particular, the author attacks the view that there is a moral difference between killing and letting die and proposes a radical conception of violence. Among other controversial issues covered in the book are neutrality, the ethics of organ transplants and the allocation of scarce resources.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.7.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• ISBN-10: 1-000-04987-6 / 1000049876
• ISBN-13: 978-1-000-04987-9 / 9781000049879