John Harris

Violence and Responsibility (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000049879
• Artikelnr.: 59819183

Autorenporträt

John Harris is Professor Emeritus University of Manchester, Visiting Professor in Bioethics, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Kings College London and Distinguished Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Humans and Persons 2. A Defence of Non-'Violent' Violence 3. Negative
Actions 4. Killing and Letting Die 5. The Survival Lottery 6. The Fate of
Others and Our Distance From It 7. Integrity, Sympathy and Negative
Responsibility 8. Neutrality 9. The Bounds of Obligation