
The Ethics of Killing
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- Intro
- CONTENTS
- 1. IDENTITY
- 1. Preliminaries
- 2. The Soul
- 2.1. Hylomorphism
- 2.2. The Cartesian Soul
- 2.3. Divided Consciousness
- 3. Are We Human Organisms?
- 3.1. When Does a Human Organism Begin to Exist?
- 3.2. Organisms, Embryos, and Corpses
- 3.3. Brain Transplantation
- 3.4. Dicephalus
- 4. The Psychological Account
- 4.1. Identity and Egoistic Concern
- 4.2. Beginning to Exist and Ceasing to Exist
- 4.3. "Pre-persons" and "Post-persons"
- 4.4. Revisions and a Note on Method
- 4.5. Replication and Egoistic Concern
- 4.6. Psychological Connectedness and Continuity
- 5. The Embodied Mind Account
- 5.1. The Embodied Mind Account of Identity
- 5.2. The Basis of Egoistic Concern
- 5.3. Possible Divergences Between Identity and Egoistic Concern
- 5.4. The Individuation of Minds
- 5.5. Mind, Brain, and Organism
- 2. DEATH
- 1. Preliminaries
- 2. The Problem of Comparison
- 2.1. Immortality
- 2.2. The Token Comparison
- 3. The Metaphysical Problem
- 3.1. A Plurality of Comparisons
- 3.2. Criteria for Determining the Appropriate Comparison
- 4. The Problem of Overdetermination
- 4.1. When Death Would Have Occurred Soon From a Different Cause
- 4.2. The Inheritance Strategy and the Problem of the Terminus
- 4.3. Overall Losses in Dying
- 4.4. The Previous Gain Account
- 4.5. Discounting Misfortunes for Previous Gains
- 5. Overall Lifelong Fortune
- 5.1. The Standard for Assessing Fortune
- 5.2. A Hierarchy of Being?
- 5.3. The Overall Fortune of Those Who Die in Infancy
- 6. The Deaths of Fetuses and Infants
- 6.1. The Time-Relative Interest Account
- 6.2. Narrative Unity, Retroactive Effects, Desert, and Desire
- 7. A Paradox
- 3. KILLING
- 1. The Wrongness of Killing and the Badness of Death
- 1.1. Two Accounts
- 1.2. The Killing of Animals
- 2. Animals and Severely Cognitively Impaired Human Beings
- 2.1. The Options
- 2.2. Membership in the Human Species
- 2.3. Comembership in a Species as a Special Relation
- 2.4. Convergent Assimilation
- 3. Equality and Respect
- 3.1. The Time-Relative Interest Account
- 3.2. The Requirement of Respect
- 3.3. The Basis of the Worth of Persons
- 4. BEGINNINGS
- 1. Early Abortion
- 2. Late Abortion
- 3. Prenatal Harm
- 4. Is a Later Abortion Worse?
- 5. Time-Relative Interests and Adaptation
- 6. Potential
- 6.1. Potential and Identity
- 6.2. Potential as a Basis for Moral Status
- 6.3. Potential, Cognitive Impairment, and Animals
- 7. The Sanctity of Human Life
- 8. Infanticide
- 8.1. Abortion and Infanticide
- 8.2. Are Infants "Replaceable?
- 9. Abortion as the Denial of Life-Support
- 9.1. The Argument
- 9.2. Responsibility for the Fetus's Need for Aid
- 9.3. Parental Responsibility
- 9.4. Killing and Letting Die
- 9.5. The Dependent Child Case
- 10. Abortion and Self-Defense
- 10.1. Self-Defense Against a Nonresponsible Threat
- 10.2. Proportionality, Third-party Intervention, and Forfeiture
- 10.3. The Decisive Asymmetry
- 5. ENDINGS
- 1. When Do We Die, or Cease to Exist?
- 1.1. Two Concepts of Death
- 1.2. Brain Death
- 1.3. Persistent Vegetative State and Deep Coma
- 1.4. Anencephalic Infants
- 2. Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
- 2.1. From Suicide to Euthanasia
- 2.2. The Sanctity of Life, Again
- 2.3. Respect for the Worth of Persons
- 2.4. Nonvoluntary Euthanasia
- 3. The Withering Away of the Self
- 3.1. The Metaphysics of Progressive Dementia
- 3.2. The Moral Authority of Advance Directives
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX OF CASES
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