Violence and Responsibility
Author | : John Harris |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2020-07-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781000049879 |
ISBN-13 | : 1000049876 |
Rating | : 4/5 (876 Downloads) |
Download or read book Violence and Responsibility written by John Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.