The ethics of killing : problems at the margins of life /

The ethics of killing : problems at the margins of life / by Jeff McMahan.

"This book is a comprehensive study of the ethics of killing in cases in which the metaphysical or moral status of the individual killed is uncertain or controversial. Among the beings whose status is questionable or marginal in this way are human embryos and fetuses, neonates, animals, anencep...

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Main Author: McMahan, Jeff.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2002]
Series:Oxford ethics series.
Subjects:
Murder > Moral and ethical aspects.
Abortion > Moral and ethical aspects.
Killing of older people > Moral and ethical aspects.
Killing of the mentally ill > Moral and ethical aspects.
Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. IDENTITY: Preliminaries
  • The soul
  • Are we human organisms?
  • The psychological account
  • The embodied mind account
  • 2. DEATH: Preliminaries
  • The problem of comparison
  • The metaphysical problem
  • The problem of overdetermination
  • Overall lifelong fortune
  • The death of fetuses and infants
  • A paradox
  • 3. KILLING: The wrongness of killing and the badness of death
  • Animals and severely cognitively impaired human beings
  • Equality and respect
  • 4. BEGINNINGS: Early abortion
  • Late abortion
  • Prenatal harm
  • Is a later abortion worse?
  • Time-relative interests and adaptation
  • Potential
  • The sanctity of human life
  • Infanticide
  • Abortion as the denial of life support
  • Abortion and self-defense
  • 5. ENDINGS: When do we die, or cease to exist?
  • Euthanasia and assisted suicide
  • The withering away of the self.

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