From morality to the end of reason : an essay on rights, reasons, and responsibility /

Ingmar Persson presents an analysis of common sense morality, in particular the act-omission doctrine and the doctrine of double effect. He traces both doctrines to a theory of rights and a conception of responsibility as based on causation, and provides an original account of what it is to have a r...

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Main Author: Persson, Ingmar (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Summary:Ingmar Persson presents an analysis of common sense morality, in particular the act-omission doctrine and the doctrine of double effect. He traces both doctrines to a theory of rights and a conception of responsibility as based on causation, and provides an original account of what it is to have a reason for action.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191755811
0191755818