Name: Morality, Mortality: Volume i: Death and Whom to Save From it (Oxford Ethics Series) (en Inglés)
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Author: F. M. Kamm
ISBN: 9780195077896

portada Morality, Mortality: Volume i: Death and Whom to Save From it (Oxford Ethics Series) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Autor

F. M. Kamm

Año

1993

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

352

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

019507789x

ISBN13

9780195077896

N° edición

Categorías

Ética médica y conducta profesional

Morality, Mortality: Volume i: Death and Whom to Save From it (Oxford Ethics Series) (en Inglés)

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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.