منابع مشابه
Moore on Doing versus Allowing Harm
Michael Moore's Causation and Responsibility^ is a comprehensive and fascinating study of the relationship between the law, moralify, and metaphysics. One of the most interesting (and, at the same time, controversial) theses Moore defends in this book is the claim that some central legal concepts are grounded in metaphysical concepts. In particular, Moore emphasizes the key role played in the l...
متن کاملDoing/Allowing Harm Distinction:A Description, Analysis and Critique of Accounts of Donagan, Foot, Quinn and Bennet
The subject of "harm" and its binary distinction is one of the most recent topics in moral philosophy which has been dealt with by some moral philosophers in the last three decades. In recent years, there have also been some Iranian publications under this topic. The do/allow distinction is one of the distinctions. Moderate and minimalist philosophers who are advocates of this distinction offer...
متن کاملDoing, Allowing, and Enabling Harm: An Empirical Investigation
Traditionally, moral philosophers have distinguished between doing and allowing harm, and have normally proceeded as if this bipartite distinction can exhaustively characterize all cases of human conduct involving harm. By contrast, cognitive scientists and psychologists studying causal judgment have investigated the concept ‘enable’ as distinct from the concept ‘cause’ and other causal terms. ...
متن کاملMoral appraisals affect doing/allowing judgments.
An extensive body of research suggests that the distinction between doing and allowing plays a critical role in shaping moral appraisals. Here, we report evidence from a pair of experiments suggesting that the converse is also true: moral appraisals affect doing/allowing judgments. Specifically, morally bad behavior is more likely to be construed as actively 'doing' than as passively 'allowing'...
متن کاملCreating Harm without Doing Wrong
In three studies, participants assigned civil liability at moderate to high rates to injurers whose conduct was not negligent, holding them to a strict liability standard. The law would generally not assign liability in these cases, instead only imposing it when the actor was negligent or when the activities were “abnormally dangerous.” Participants are more likely to assign liability in the ab...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1559-3061
DOI: 10.26556/jesp.v18i3.955