Violence and Responsibility, Hardback Book

Violence and Responsibility Hardback

Part of the Routledge Library Editions: Ethics series

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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.

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