Relief from Rescue
| Autor: | Jordan Arthur Thomson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Philosophical Studies. 179:1221-1239 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0883 0031-8116 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11098-021-01705-1 |
| Popis: | Moral extremists argue for highly demanding duties of beneficence on the ground that accepting a more moderate position commits us to denying the common-sense moral intuition elicited by easy rescue cases (such as Singer’s famous drowning child case). I argue that a moderate duty of beneficence is consistent with this intuition in light of what I call aggregationism, the view that the large aggregate cost of performing many low-cost acts of beneficence is relevant to what moral agents may do in cases where they face multiple low-cost occasions to rescue. After demonstrating how the debate between moderates and extremists turns on the truth of aggregationism, I defend aggregationism against the challenge that it is inconsistent with respecting the separateness of persons. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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