Dead Wrong
The Ethics of Posthumous Harm
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 desiresis 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 b…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-257937-9
- EAN: 9780192579379
- Produktnummer: 32741198
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'106 KB
Über den Autor
David Boonin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder and Director of the Department's Center for Values and Social Policy. He is also the editor of Public Affairs Quarterly. Boonin received his BA from Yale University in 1986 and his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1992. He taught at Georgetown University (1992-4) and Tulane University (1994-8) before taking up his current position at CU in 1998. He also held a visitingposition for a semester as an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2006.
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