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Taking Life - Three Theories on the Ethics of Killing (Hardcover)
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Taking Life - Three Theories on the Ethics of Killing (Hardcover)
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When and why is it right to kill? When and why is it wrong?
Torbjoern Tannsjoe examines three theories on the ethics of killing
in this book: deontology, a libertarian moral rights theory, and
utilitarianism. The implications of each theory are worked out for
different kinds of killing: trolley-cases, murder, capital
punishment, suicide, assisted death, abortion, killing in war, and
the killing of animals. These implications are confronted with our
intuitions in relation to them, and our moral intuitions are
examined in turn. Only those intuitions that survive an
understanding of how we have come to hold them are seen as
'considered' intuitions. The idea is that the theory that can best
explain the content of our considered intuitions gains inductive
support from them. We must transcend our narrow cultural horizons
and avoid certain cognitive mistakes in order to hold considered
intuitions. In this volume, suitable for courses in ethics and
applied ethics, Tannsjoe argues that in the final analysis
utilitarianism can best account for, and explain, our considered
intuitions about all these kinds of killing.
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