The ethics of killing : problems at the margins of life

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Label

The ethics of killing : problems at the margins of life

Title remainder

problems at the margins of life

Statement of responsibility

by Jeff McMahan

Creator

• McMahan, Jeff

Subject

• Abortion, Induced -- ethics
• Attitude to Death
• Embryo Research
• Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Euthanasia -- ethics
• Killing of the elderly -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Killing of the mentally ill -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Murder -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Patient Rights
• Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects

Language

eng

Summary

• "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, anencephalic infants, human beings with severe, congenital, cognitive impairments, and human beings who have become severely demented or irreversibly comatose." "In an attempt to understand the moral status of these beings, Jeff McMahan develops and defends distinctive accounts of the nature of personal identity, the evaluation of death, and the wrongness of killing. He contends that the morality of killing is not unitary; rather, the principles that determine the morality of killing in marginal cases are different from those that govern the killing of persons who are self-conscious and rational."--Jacket
• "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, anencephalic infants, human beings with severe, congenital, cognitive impairments, and human beings who have become severely demented or irreversibly comatose." "In an attempt to understand the moral status of these beings, Jeff McMahan develops and defends distinctive accounts of the nature of personal identity, the evaluation of death, and the wrongness of killing. He contends that the morality of killing is not unitary; rather, the principles that determine the morality of killing in marginal cases are different from those that govern the killing of persons who are self-conscious and rational."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• Oxford ethics series

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

179.7

Index

index present

LC call number

HV6515

LC item number

.M35 2002

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Oxford ethics series