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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Act Itself (Hardcover)
The purpose of this book is to argue for two claims:1) There is no moral significance to the doing/allowing distinction. 2) The "Doctrine of Double Effect" is false. The doing/allowing distinction and the DDE lie at the core of "common sense morality", and so Bennett's frying some pretty big fish by taking them on. His arguments are simultaneously creative and rigorous, drawing heavily on metaphysics and the philosophy of action to reach some rather startling moral conclusions. As an application of metaphysics to ethics, this book is exemplary, second in the contemporary literature only to Parfit's Reasons and Persons. That's why it's surprising that it's only the 2,000,000-th most popular book on Amazon (as of the time of this review). If you're interested in the CENTRAL problems of normative ethics, and enjoy work that challenges our most deeply held views, put this in your shopping cart tout de suite! |
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The Act Itself by Jonathan Francis Bennett (Hardcover - May 11, 1995)
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