%0 Book %D 2007 %T

Intricate Ethics : Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm

%A Kamm, FM. %K Consequentialism (Ethics) %K Ethics %K Responsibility %X

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.

%I Oxford University Press %C Oxford %P x, 509 p. %@ 0195189698 (alk. paper); 9780195189698 (alk. paper) %G eng %U http://hollis.harvard.edu/?itemid=%7Clibrary/m/aleph%7C010169436