Morality Mortality Death And Whom To Save From It

Author : Frances Myrna Kamm
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195119118
Total Pages : 353 pages
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Download or read book Morality, Mortality: Death and whom to save from it written by Frances Myrna Kamm and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically examining other philosophers ideas, the author of this work explores the thinking behind the distribution of scarce resources, such as transplant organs.

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Author : F. M. Kamm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198024010
Total Pages : 353 pages
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Download or read book Morality, Mortality written by F. M. Kamm and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is death bad for us, even on the assumption that it involves the absence of experience? Is it worse for us than prenatal nonexistence? Kamm begins by considering these questions, critically examining some answers other philosophers have given. She explores in detail suggestions based on our greater concern over the loss of future versus past goods and those based on the insult to persons which death involves. In the second part, Kamm deals with the question, "Whom should we save from death if we cannot save everyone?" She considers whether and when the numbers of lives we can save matter in our choice, and whether the extra good we achieve if we save some lives rather than others should play a role in deciding whom to save. Issues such as fairness, solidarity, the role of random decision procedures, and the relation between subjective and objective points of view are discussed, with an eye to properly incorporating these into a nonconsequentialist ethical theory. In conclusion, the book examines specifically what differences between persons are relevant to the distribution of any scarce resource, discussing for example, the distribution (and acquisition) of bodily organs for transplantation. Kamm provides criticism of some current procedures for distribution and acquisition of a scarce resource and makes suggestions for alternatives.

Author : Frances Myrna Kamm
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Total Pages : 344 pages
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Download or read book Morality, Mortality written by Frances Myrna Kamm and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically examining other philosophers ideas, the author of this work explores the thinking behind the distribution of scarce resources, such as transplant organs.

Author : F. M. Kamm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198024592
Total Pages : 400 pages
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Download or read book Morality, Mortality written by F. M. Kamm and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Morality, Mortality, Volume II, Kamm continues to explore questions of life and death as illustrations of general issues in moral theory. Resuming her development of non- consequentialist ethical theory and its application to practical ethical problems, she explores the distinction between killing and letting die, between harming and not aiding, and between intending and foreseeing harm. Throughout this examination, she focuses on the methodology used in analyzing these questions. Kamm develops a principled account of when harming some to save others is permissable and impermissable. In the process, she discusses the "Survival Lottery and Trolley Problem," and other related dilemmatic situations. Kamm then covers the concepts of rights and prerogatives, contrasting a victim-focused account of rights with that of an agent-relative account. Here, she considers the problem of minimizing rights violations, and the significance of the status of inviolability. She concludes Volume II by assessing whether agreements or superogatory conduct may permissably override restrictions, and what their doing or not doing indicates about morality, duties, and prerogatives.

Author : Frances Myrna Kamm
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Total Pages : 400 pages
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Author : Frances Myrna Kamm
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195144023
Total Pages : 402 pages
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Download or read book Morality, Mortality: Rights, duties and status written by Frances Myrna Kamm and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically examining other philosophers ideas, the author of this work explores the thinking behind the distribution of scarce resources, such as transplant organs.

Author : F. M. Kamm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190649615
Total Pages : 614 pages
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Download or read book Bioethical Prescriptions written by F. M. Kamm and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bioethical Prescriptions collects F.M. Kamm's articles on bioethics, which have appeared over the last twenty-five years and which have made her among the most influential philosophers in this area. Kamm is known for her intricate, sophisticated, and painstaking philosophical analyses of moral problems generally and of bioethical issues in particular. This volume showcases these articles -- revised to eliminate redundancies -- as parts of a coherent whole. A substantive introduction identifies important themes than run through the articles. Section headings include Death and Dying; Early Life (on conception and use of embryos, abortion, and childhood); Genetics and Other Enhancements (on cloning and other genetic technologies); Allocating Scarce Resources; and Methodology (on the relation of moral theory and practical ethics).

Author : F.M. Kamm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199707359
Total Pages : 520 pages
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Download or read book Intricate Ethics written by F.M. Kamm and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reading F.M. Kamm's latest book is like watching a brilliant astronomer map an uncharted galaxy--the meticulousness and the display of mental stamina must inspire awe. There is a kind of beauty in the performance alone. Intricate Ethics is a major event in normative ethical theory by a living master of the subject.... In the end, professional moral philosophers cannot reasonably ignore Intricate Ethics.... Kamm continues to prove herself the most imaginative, detail-oriented deontologist writing in English today... Professor Kamm is in a class by herself."--Jeffrey Brand-Ballard, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "The operative word in this masterful work is 'intricate.' Watching Kamm's mind dissect and reconstruct different cases is like watching a juggler, riding a unicycle, carrying on a conversation, while getting dressed. It is a glorious celebration of what moral philosophy does best, and what one of its most gifted practitioners can do to enlighten our understanding of the most pressing ethical issues of our time. But it is also a rich playground for empirically minded philosophers and psychologists who want to play with the clever class of dilemmas that Kamm has created, dilemmas that will both amuse and torture generations of people."--Marc Hauser is a Harvard College Professor and author of "Moral Minds" "Frances Kamm once again proves herself to be an astonishingly subtle and creative defender of a deontological outlook. Anyone at all interested in normative ethics will find something of value in Intricate Ethics. There are striking and original views on a wide range of topics. And no one--absolutely no one--compares to Kamm when it comes to constructing relevant test cases and carefully assessing our intuitive reactions to them. This is a master at work, at the height of her powers."--Shelly Kagan, Clark Professor of Philosophy, Yale University "Intricate Ethics fully justifies its title. It is as deep, subtle, imaginative, and analytically rigorous as any work in moral philosophy written in a great many years. It is dense with highly original and fertile ideas supported by powerful and ingenious arguments. This book amply confirms Frances Kamm's standing as one of the greatest living philosophers.--Jeff McMahan, Rutgers University "Kamm's virtuosity in hypothesizing cases in defense or refutation of moral principles remains unsurpassed. Intricate Ethics is also a testament to the fruitfulness of this rarefied method of ethics. One might have thought that, having already devoted several hundred path-breaking pages to the topic of nonconsequentialism in her earlier two-volume Morality, Mortality, it would have been impossible to break much new ground in this sequel. Yet what Kamm has to say here on the topics of harming and saving from harm is as novel, arresting, and insightful as ever."--Michael Otsuka, Professor of Philosophy, University College London "Kamm ...is the most sophisticated of the contemporary exponents of "intuitionist" or "nonconsequentialist" ethics...No one else makes such extraordinarily meticulous and penetrating attempts to extract the principles behind our ordinary moral intuitions...I highly recommend it as an inclusive and subtle attempt to work out nonconsequentialism on an intuitionist basis. As a bonus, Intricate Ethics also offers searching analyses of the work of Peter Unger, Peter Singer, Bernard Gert, T.M. Scanlon, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky."--Ingmar Persson, Times Literary Supplement

Author : William Horst
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 166690029X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morality, Not Mortality written by William Horst and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study argues that the language of “death” as a present human plight in Romans 5–8 is best understood against the background of Hellenistic moral-psychological discourse, in which “death” refers to a state of moral bondage in which a person’s rational will is dominated by passions associated with the body. It is death of this sort, rather than human mortality or a cosmic power called “Death,” that entered the world through the transgression of Adam and Eve in Eden. Moral death was imposed on humanity as a judgment against this initial transgression, in order to increase sinful behavior, which ultimately serves to increase the magnitude of the glorious revelation of God’s grace through Jesus Christ. Likewise, creation’s subjection to “corruption” and “futility” in Romans 8 involves the detrimental effects of human moral corruption, not the physical corruption of death and decay. Ultimately, the plight on which Paul focuses much of his attention throughout Rom 5–8 is a matter of morality, not mortality.