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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: limits of morality
  name:
    name part: Kagan, Shelly.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Clarendon Press
    publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
    date issued: ©1989
    date issued: 1989
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 415 pages)
  abstract: Basing itself on the premise that there are limits to the sacrifices that morality can demand on individuals, and also that certain types of acts are simply forbidden, this book argues that attempts to defend these sorts of moral limits are inadequate.
  table of contents: Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Against Ordinary Morality -- Dramatis Personae -- Moral Methodology -- Promoting the Good -- Resisting Options to Do Harm -- Constraints -- The Two-level Conception of Morality -- Contracts -- Promissory Notes -- 2. The Structure of Ordinary Morality -- The Existence of the Pro Tanto Reason -- The Concept of the Good -- Moral Requirement -- Ordinary Morality -- The Neutrality of the Framework -- 3. Doing Harm -- Drawing the Line -- Paralysis -- Interfering -- Difficult Cases -- Aid
  table of contents: The Relevance of the DistinctionThree Mysteries -- 4. Intending Harm -- Harm Intended as Means -- Self-defense -- Shields -- Permission -- Due Proportion -- Relevance Again -- More Mysteries -- 5. Without Constraints -- Abandoning the Constraint -- The Neo-moderate -- Avoiding the Constraint -- Avoiding the Distinction -- 6. Avoiding the Appeal -- Granting Constraints -- The Self-constraint Argument -- Rights -- The Elements of Rights -- Positive Rights -- 7. The Appeal to Cost -- The Advantages of the Appeal -- The Sacrifice of Interests
  table of contents: Other OptionsThe Neighborhood of the Account -- The Personal Point of View -- Reflecting the Nature of Persons -- 8. The Negative Argument -- Two Attitudes about the Nature of Persons -- Prudence -- Vivid Belief -- Others -- Hypothetical Judges -- Abandoning Universality -- The Core of the Bias -- Overcoming the Bias -- 9. The Positive Argument -- Endorsing the Subjective Standpoint -- The Patient's Point of View -- Grounding Constraints -- The Moral Point of View -- Merits of the Subjective -- Avoiding Moral Decisiveness -- Noninsistent Reasons
  table of contents: The Defense of Options10. Extraordinary Morality -- The Value of Being Moral -- Political and Social Structures -- Freedom -- The Demands of Morality -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
  note: Shelly Kagan.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-407) and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Morale
  subject:
    topic: ethics (philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: Social
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Ethiek
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Moral philosophy
  classification: BJ1012 .K24 1989eb
  classification: 170
  classification: 08.38
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    record creation date: 090522
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng