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Morality, Mortality: Death and Whom to Save from It - Hardcover

Kamm, Frances Myrna; Kamm, F. M.

 
9780195077896: Morality, Mortality: Death and Whom to Save from It
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 019507789X ISBN 13: 9780195077896
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

Frances Kamm's book deals with the question of the badness of death. Death is generally felt to be the worst wrong that can happen to one. Philosophers from Epicurus onwards have argued, on the contrary, that as death involves the absence of experience, and bad things involve bad sensations, death cannot be bad; also, for something to be bad, it must be bad for someone, yet as we cease to exist when we die, it cannot be bad for us.

Kamm discusses this view and the objections made to it by Nagel, Williams, and others, and considers the question of whether there is an asymmetry between dying and never having come into existence; and she goes on to consider the question of saving lives, and whether it is better to save more lives at a lower level of happiness or fewer lives at a higher level of happiness. The final section of the book deals with the question of organ transplantation and the distribution of resources which are unequally available.

The book contains much theoretical and methodological argument, but is firmly grounded in practical ethical issues, and is illustrated throughout by examples.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
019507789X
ISBN 13 
9780195077896
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
356
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