Understanding Harm and its Moral Significance

The paper explores how harm must be understood if intuitively attractive deontological principles concerning the infliction and prevention of harm are to be vindicated. It focuses especially upon how harm must be understood if it is to be plausible that preventing people from undergoing harm takes p...

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1. VerfasserIn: Hanser, Matthew (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Springer Science + Business Media B. V [2019]
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Jahr: 2019, Band: 22, Heft: 4, Seiten: 853-870
weitere Schlagwörter:B Intrinsic/extrinsic value
B Deontological principles
B Harm
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Zusammenfassung:The paper explores how harm must be understood if intuitively attractive deontological principles concerning the infliction and prevention of harm are to be vindicated. It focuses especially upon how harm must be understood if it is to be plausible that preventing people from undergoing harm takes priority over improving the conditions of badly-off people who have not suffered harm.
ISSN:1572-8447
Enthält:Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10677-019-09996-4