The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of LifeOxford University Press, 2002 M01 3 - 560 páginas 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. |
Contenido
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2 DEATH | 95 |
3 KILLING | 189 |
4 BEGINNINGS | 267 |
5 ENDINGS | 423 |
NOTES | 505 |
REFERENCES | 521 |
INDEX OF CASES | 531 |
GENERAL INDEX | 533 |
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abortion accept According Account actual allow animals argument assume basis become begin believe better body brain capacities cause cease child claim comparable conception condition consciousness consider considerations constitute continuing to live course death depends determine developed distinct earlier effect egoistic concern equal example exist explanation fact fetus function future give given harm human identity implies important individual individual’s infant Innocent intrinsic intuitions involving killing later least less letting live loss matter means mental merely mind misfortune moral nature necessary normal noted objection occur one’s organism Patient perhaps permissible person possible potential preference pregnant present problem psychological psychological capacities question rational reason relation relevant respect response retarded seems sense severely significant sort soul species status strong suffering sufficient suggested suppose things threat time-relative interest true unity victim well-being whole woman worse worth wrong
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Página 82 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 99 - In talking, they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. For the same reason, they can never amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will not serve to carry them from the beginning of a sentence to the end ; and by this defect they arc deprived of the only entertainment whereof they might otherwise be capable.
Página 99 - At ninety they lose their teeth and hair, they have at that age no distinction of taste, but eat and drink whatever they can get, without relish or appetite.
Página 10 - For if the identity of soul alone makes the same man, and there be nothing in the nature of matter why the same individual spirit may not be united to different bodies, it will be possible that those men living in distant ages, and of different tempers, may have been the same man: which way of speaking must be, from a very strange use of the word man, applied to an idea, out of which body and shape are excluded.
Página 137 - A single summer grant me, great powers, and A single autumn for fully ripened song That, sated with the sweetness of my Playing, my heart may more willingly die. The soul that, living, did not attain its divine Right cannot repose in the nether world. But once what I am bent on, what is Holy, my poetry, is accomplished, Be welcome then, stillness of the shadows
Página 101 - The lucid outline forming round thee; saw The dim curls kindle into sunny rings; Changed with thy mystic change, and felt my blood Glow with the glow that slowly...
Página 117 - ... containing the usual mixture of goods and evils that he has found so tolerable in the past. Having been gratuitously introduced to the world by a collection of natural, historical, and social accidents, he finds himself the subject of a life, with an indeterminate and not essentially limited future. Viewed in this way, death, no matter how inevitable, is an abrupt cancellation of indefinitely extensive possible goods.
Página 96 - Oh! do you know this dust, then ? Do you know what it is and what it can do ? Learn to know it before you despise it. This matter which now lies there as dust and ashes will soon, dissolved in water, form itself as a crystal, will shine as metal, will then emit electric sparks, will by means of its galvanic intensity manifest a force which, decomposing the closest combinations, reduces earths to metals; nay, it will, of its own...