Morality, Mortality: Death and Whom to Save from It / Edition 1

Morality, Mortality: Death and Whom to Save from It / Edition 1

by F. M. Kamm
ISBN-10:
019507789X
ISBN-13:
9780195077896
Pub. Date:
11/25/1993
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-10:
019507789X
ISBN-13:
9780195077896
Pub. Date:
11/25/1993
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
Morality, Mortality: Death and Whom to Save from It / Edition 1

Morality, Mortality: Death and Whom to Save from It / Edition 1

by F. M. Kamm
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Overview

Why is death bad for us, even on the assumption that it involves the absence of experience? Is it worse for us than prenatal nonexistence? Kamm begins by considering these questions, critically examining some answers other philosophers have given. She explores in detail suggestions based on our greater concern over the loss of future versus past goods and those based on the insult to persons which death involves. In the second part, Kamm deals with the question, "Whom should we save from death if we cannot save everyone?" She considers whether and when the numbers of lives we can save matter in our choice, and whether the extra good we achieve if we save some lives rather than others should play a role in deciding whom to save. Issues such as fairness, solidarity, the role of random decision procedures, and the relation between subjective and objective points of view are discussed, with an eye to properly incorporating these into a nonconsequentialist ethical theory. In conclusion, the book examines specifically what differences between persons are relevant to the distribution of any scarce resource, discussing for example, the distribution (and acquisition) of bodily organs for transplantation. Kamm provides criticism of some current procedures for distribution and acquisition of a scarce resource and makes suggestions for alternatives.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195077896
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 11/25/1993
Series: Oxford Ethics Series
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 6.38(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.02(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 3(10)
I. DEATH: FROM BAD TO WORSE 13(62)
1. Why Is Death Bad?
13(12)
2. The Asymmetry Problem: Death and Prenatal Nonexistence
25(14)
3. Accounting for Asymmetry?
39(17)
4. Appropriate Attitudes toward Nonexistence
56(19)
Appendix: Inclines and Declines
67(8)
II. SAVING LIVES: GENERAL ISSUES 75(126)
5. Is It Worse If More Die: Agent Relative or Non-Relative Views?
75(24)
6. Is It Right to Save the Greater Number?
99(24)
7. Ideal Procedure, Nonideal Alternatives, and Proportional Chances
123(21)
8. Are There Irrelevant Utilities?
144(21)
9. Sobjectivity: The Anatomy of the Subjective and Objective in Moral Judgment
165(15)
10. Sobjectivity: Aggregation and Scales of Equivalents and Cost
180(21)
III. SCARCE RESOURCES: THEORETICAL ISSUES, SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS, AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTS 201(130)
11. Acquisition of Organs
201(32)
12. Distribution of Resources: Need and Outcome
233(35)
13. Distribution of Resources: Urgency and Outcome
268(16)
14. Distribution of Resources: Outcome, Waiting Time, and Money
284(20)
15. Procedures for Distribution
304(27)
Bibliography 331(4)
Index 335
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