On the Concept of a Morally Relevant Harm
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12227608 |
|---|---|
| Autores | David Lefkowitz (0000-0003-1890-5935, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2008 |
| Volumen | 20 |
| Número | 4 |
| Páginas | 409-423 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2008-11-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Utilitas (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0953-8208 • E-ISSN: 1741-6183 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0953820808003245 |
| OpenAlex | W2121110980 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 6 |
| Referencias citadas | 8 |
The author argues that only when the two harms are morally relevant to one another may an agent take into account the number of people he can save. He defends an orbital conception of morally relevant harm, according to which harms that fall within the ‘orbit’ of a given harm are relevant to it, while all other harms are not. The possibility of preventing a harm provides both a first-order reason to prevent that harm, and a second-order reason not to consider preventing irrelevant harms. This understanding of a morally relevant harm avoids two objections to such a concept recently raised by Alastair Norcross: identifying a point along a continuous scale of harms at which the divide between relevant and irrelevant harms occurs, and the entailment that the mere possibility of preventing harm that one is morally forbidden from preventing can determine which of two other actions morality requires
Economics · Epistemology · Harm · Harm principle · Law and economics · Morality · Order (exchange · Sociology · Ethics in medical practice · Free Will and Agency · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Obras citantes distintas | 6 |
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| Citas por año | 0,5 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 6 |