株式会社極東書店トップ ＞ 商品一覧 ＞ Killing and Other Dastardly Deeds : Hard Problems for Moral Theory.
商品詳細
Killing and Other Dastardly Deeds : Hard Problems for Moral Theory.
・ISBN 978-0-691-28509-2 hard US$ 45.00
￥10,543.- (税込) ※（※）価格はご注文時の参考価格となります。
納品価格につきましては書籍の入荷時点で確定となります。
版元の原価改定、外国為替の変動等により異なる場合がございますので、予めご了承下さい。
| 著者・編者 | Hawthorne, John, |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series |
| 出版社 | (Princeton U. Pr., US) |
| 出版年月 | 2026.07 |
| ページ数 | 248 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜758-97＞ |
解説
A powerful and probing critique of the ethical permissibility of serious harms
In Killing and Other Dastardly Deeds, eminent philosopher John Hawthorne rigorously probes the commonsense morality of killing and other serious harms, exposing troubling issues at the foundations of ethical thought.
The book addresses the ethical significance of causatives, focusing on the contrast between actions that are killings and those that aren't killings, but which hasten death. It offers an extensive critique of popular contractualist treatments of the wrongness of harming people. It also investigates the popular absolutist idea that one should never perform an action that will with certainty kill someone when the only upside is an array of trifling goods. Along the way, readers learn just how difficult it is to embed various standard ethical ideas into a sensible normative theory of decision making.
Drawing many connections with areas of philosophy beyond ethics, and making important contributions at the intersection of ethics and decision theory, Killing and Other Dastardly Deeds is an insightful critique of absolutist prohibitions on killing.