The harm principle and global ethics

Global Society

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 329-343

  Linklater, Andrew ^a  

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ETHICS; LIBERALISM; POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY;

EID: 33747039593     PISSN: 13600826     EISSN: 1469798X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13600820600816340     Document Type: Review

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4. A. Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1982), p. 138.
5. Quoted in J.L. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977), p. 135.
6. H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961), pp. 191-192.
7. Hart, Concept of Law, p. 190.
8. Ibid., p. 189ff.
9. Ibid., p. 160.
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11. Warnock, Object of Morality, p. 80; see also p. 21.
12. Ibid., pp. 87, 150.
13. Ibid., pp. 147, 151.
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15. Ibid., pp. 141-142.
16. Ibid.
17. W.D. Ross, The Right and the Good (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930), pp. 20-21.
18. Ibid., p. 22.
19. It is important to add that Ross did not claim that the harm principle exhausted the moral domain. Duties of fidelity, reparation, gratitude, justice, beneficence and self-improvement were also included (ibid., p. 21). The same general point can be found in Hart and Warnock.
20. Ross, Right and the Good, p. 22.
21. See F. Robinson, Globalizing Care: Ethics, Feminist Theory and International Relations (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999).
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31. Ibid., p. 297.
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50. Ibid., p. 86.
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53. Feinberg, Harm to Others, p. 12.
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55. Feinberg, Harm to Others, pp. 7-14.
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58. Ibid., p. 58.
59. Feinberg, Harm to Others, ch. 4.
60. Ibid., pp. 167, 179.
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66. See J. Feinberg, "The Moral and Legal Responsibility of the Bad Samaritan", in J. Feinberg, Freedom and Fulfilment: Philosophical Essays (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992), ch. 7
67. Feinberg Harm to Others, p. 172
68. and J. Glover, Causing Deaths and Saving Lives (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990), p. 108ff.
69. Feinberg, Harm to Others, p. 165.
70. Ibid., pp. 173-175.
71. Ibid., p. 175
72. and Feinberg, "Moral and Legal Responsibility", p. 175. I am grateful to Robert van Vrees for the point about the harm of prolonging suffering.
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81. Ibid., ch. 5.
82. Feinberg, Harm to Others, p. 37.
83. A. Honneth, The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995). I am grateful to Martin Weber for this reference.
84. Arendt's controversial study of the banality of evil in Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994) raises the issue of thoughtlessness.
85. O. O' Neill, Bounds of Justice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), ch. 7.
86. On anthropological constants, see Geras, Mutual Indifference, p. 164.