The Ethics of Killing

Problems at the Margins of Life
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-516982-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 556 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 834 g

Reihe: Oxford Ethics Series

This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual killed is uncertain. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, McMahan looks carefully at a host of practical issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcmahan, Jeff

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Jeff McMahan was educated at Oxford and Cambridge and was a Research Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently working on a companion volume to this book that will deal with the ethics of killing in self-defense, in war, and as a mode of punishment.