Author : Jeff McMahan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195169829
Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, Jeff McMahan looks at various issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.
Author : Jeff McMahan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 2002-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198024150
This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual killed is uncertain. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, McMahan looks carefully at a host of practical issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.
Author : Jeff McMahan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 39,91 MB
Release : 2002-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019987963X
This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual killed is uncertain. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, McMahan looks carefully at a host of practical issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.
Author : Ryan C. Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 0190495650
This volume collects influential and groundbreaking philosophical work on killing in war. A "who's who" of contemporary scholars, this volume serves as a convenient and authoritative collection uniquely suited for university-level teaching and as a reference for ethicists, policymakers, stakeholders, and any student of the morality of war.
Author : Torbjörn Tännsjö
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190225580
When is it right to kill? Three ethical theories are examined, deontology, a moral rights theory, and utilitarianism. The implications of each theory are worked out for different kinds of killing. In the final analysis, utilitarianism can best account for our considered intuitions about these kinds of killing.
Author : Tatjana Višak
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0199396086
While it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life. This volume presents a collection of contributions from major thinkers in ethics and animal welfare, with a special focus on the moral evaluation of killing animals.
Author : Seumas Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190626135
In this book, philosopher Seumas Miller analyzes the various moral justifications and moral responsibilities involved in the use of lethal force by police and military, relying on a distinctive normative teleological account of institutional roles. Miller covers a variety of urgent and morally complex topics, including police shootings of armed offenders, police shooting of suicide-bombers, targeted killing, autonomous weapons, humanitarian armed intervention, and civilian immunity. -- Provided by publisher.
Author : Richard Norman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 1995-02-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521455534
Richard Norman looks at issues concerning the justification for war and thereby examines the possibility and nature of rational moral argument.
Author : Justine Burley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1405142871
Dworkin and His Critics provides an in-depth, analyticaldiscussion of Ronald Dworkin's ethical, legal and politicalphilosophical writings, and it includes substantial replies fromDworkin himself. Includes substantial replies by Ronald Dworkin, a comprehensivebibliography of his work, and suggestions for furtherreading. Contributors include Richard Arneson, G. A. Cohen, FrancesKamm, Will Kymlicka, Philippe van Parijs, Eric Rakowski, Joseph Razand Jeremy Waldron. Makes an important contribution to many on-going debates overabortion, euthanasia, the rule of law, distributive justice, grouprights, political obligation, and genetics.
Author : Jeff McMahan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 2009-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191563463
Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that conditions in war make no difference to what morality permits and the justifications for killing people are the same in war as they are in other contexts, such as individual self-defence. This view is radically at odds with the traditional theory of the just war and has implications that challenge common sense views. McMahan argues, for example, that it is wrong to fight in a war that is unjust because it lacks a just cause.
