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The ethics of harming

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dc.contributor.advisorPummer, Theron
dc.contributor.advisorHope, Simon
dc.contributor.authorJoseph, Joel
dc.coverage.spatial133en_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-28T11:47:56Z
dc.date.available2024-06-28T11:47:56Z
dc.date.issued2024-12-04
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/30051
dc.description.abstractCommonsense morality rejects an unqualified requirement to promote the overall good. Moral constraints prohibit you from bringing about the overall good. For example, you seem morally required to save five people over one. But you seem prohibited from hurling an innocent bystander onto a live grenade that is going to kill five innocent strangers, thereby killing the bystander while shielding the five from the blast. This dissertation provides a defence of moral constraints and explores their practical implications.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectNormative ethicsen_US
dc.subjectApplied ethicsen_US
dc.subjectDeontological constraintsen_US
dc.titleThe ethics of harmingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.contributor.sponsorPhilosophical Quarterlyen_US
dc.contributor.sponsorUniversity of St Andrewsen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17630/sta/950


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