Dead Wrong

The Ethics of Posthumous Harm

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ID19989586
AuthorsDavid Boonin (corresponding author), David Magnus Boonin (University of Colorado Boulder, corresponding author)
Year2019
Pages224
Publication date2019-10-10
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueDead Wrong (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
OpenAlexW2991020692
Open LibraryOL29442924M
ISBN9780198842101
LanguageEN
References cited52

It is possible for an act to wrongfully harm a person, even if the act takes place after the person is dead. David Boonin defends this view in Dead Wrong and explains the puzzle of posthumous harm. In doing so, he makes three central claims. First, that it is possible for an act to wrongfully harm a person while they are alive even if the act has no effect on that person's conscious experiences. Second, that if this is so, then frustrating a person's desires is one way to wrongfully harm a person. And third, that it is possible for an act to wrongfully harm a person even if the act takes place after the person is dead. Over the course of the book, Boonin introduces the significance of posthumous harm, deals with each of his three main claims in turn, responds to the objections that might be raised against the book's thesis, and examines some of the ethical implications for issues such as posthumous organ and gamete removal, posthumous publication of private documents, damage to graves and corpses, and posthumous punishment and restitution

Criminology · Environmental ethics · Harm · Political science · Sociology · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Ethics in medical practice · Free Will and Agency · Law · Philosophy · Torture, Ethics, and Law · War, Ethics, and Justification · Dead · Death · Death, moral and ethical aspects · Moral and ethical aspects · Respect for persons

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