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Violence and Responsibility (Routledge Library Editions: Ethics) - Softcover

Harris, John

 
9780367469016: Violence and Responsibility (Routledge Library Editions: Ethics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0367469014 ISBN 13: 9780367469016
Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

Originally published in 1980 this book argues that we are all responsible for the harm we could have prevented and explores the effect of this conclusion on a morality which makes fundamental the belief that we ought not to harm others if we can possibly avoid it. A theory of responsibility is developed and defended which has consequences for the way we live as well as for a number of problems in contemporary moral, political and social philosophy, and in jurisprudence. In particular, the author attacks the view that there is a moral difference between killing and letting die and proposes a radical conception of violence. Among other controversial issues covered in the book are neutrality, the ethics of organ transplants and the allocation of scarce resources.

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About the Author

John Harris is Professor Emeritus University of Manchester, Visiting Professor in Bioethics, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Kings College London and Distinguished Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367469014
ISBN 13 
9780367469016
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
188