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Violence and Responsibility by Harris, John is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Violence and Responsibility about?
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.
Who reads Violence and Responsibility?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Harris, John
- Publisher
- Routledge & Kegan Paul Books Ltd
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781000049879
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Education, Gender Studies, Psychology
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