The act-omission doctrine and negative rights

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 15-29

  Persson, Ingmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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EID: 36849078180     PISSN: 00225363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10790-007-9060-1     Document Type: Review

References (29)

1. See Philippa Foot, "Killing and Letting Die," in Phillippa Foot, Moral Dilemmas, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
2. See Shelly Kagan, The Limits of Morality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 106-111.
3. See Jeff McMahan, The Ethics of Killing (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 461.
4. Ibid.
5. Kagan, op.cit., pp. 121ff.
6. Ibid., pp. 50-51.
7. See H. L. A. Hart, "Are There Any Natural Rights?", in Theories of Rights, Jeremy Waldron, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984).
8. McMahan, op.cit., p. 461.
9. F. M. Kamm, Morality, Mortality, vol. II (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 114-115.
10. See McMahan, op.cit., pp. 236-237, & 386.
11. See Ingmar Persson & Julian Savulescu, "McMahan on the Withdrawal of Life-Prolonging Aid," Philosophical Books, 46 (2005), pp. 12-13.
12. See also Persson and Savulescu, op.cit.
13. Jeff McMahan, "Killing, Letting Die, and Withdrawing Aid," Ethics 103 (1993), p. 261.
14. Kamm, op.cit., pp. 28-29.
15. See ibid., p. 29.
16. See also McMahan, "Killing, Letting Die, and Withdrawing Aid," pp. 252-253.
17. See McMahan, "Killing, Letting Die, and Withdrawing Aid," pp. 264-265 and The Ethics of Killing, p. 382.
18. McMahan, "Killing, Letting Die, and Withdrawing Aid," pp. 265-266.
19. McMahan, The Ethics of Killing, p. 381.
20. Ibid, p. 381.
21. See Christopher Boorse and Roy Sorenson, "Ducking Harm," in Ethics: Problems and Principles, John Martin Fischer & Mark Ravizza, eds. (Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992), p. 88.
22. Kamm., op.cit., p. 28.
23. Ibid., p. 29.
24. Judith Thomson, "Physician-Assisted Suicide: Two Moral Arguments," Ethics 109 (1999), pp. 504-505.
25. Ibid. p. 504.
26. See Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974), pp. 28-29.
27. See H. L. A. Hart and Tony Honoré, Causation in the Law, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 42-44.
28. Cf. Foot, op.cit.
29. I would like to thank Jeff McMahan, Derek Parfit, Julian Savulescu, and Paul Snowdon for discussions on the topic of this paper.