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...Frances Kamm Jeff McMahan, The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiii + 540 pp. Cornell University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS Allan Gibbard, Thinking How to Live. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. ix...

...Kieran Oberman This article addresses a previously overlooked problem in the ethics of defensive killing. Everyone agrees that defensive killing can only be justified when it is necessary. But necessary for what? That seemingly simple question turns out to be surprisingly difficult to answer...

... to provide new moral foundations for a touchstone of commonsense morality and law: the idea that there is an extremely stringent moral constraint on killing noncombatants in war. More precisely, Lazar defends a comparative claim: Moral Distinction : In war, with rare exceptions, killing noncombatants...

... Dilemmas and Moral Theory . Oxford : Oxford University Press . McMahan Jeff . 1994 . “ Self-Defense and the Problem of the Innocent Attacker .” Ethics 104 : 252 - 90 . Otsuka Michael . 1994 . “ Killing the Innocent in Self-Defense .” Philosophy and Public Affairs 23 : 74 - 94...

.... Their judgment is endorsed by moral theories (henceforth constraint-against-bad-killing theories, for short) that say that, for a certain, bad kind of killing, we ought not to kill in this way, even when killing in this way brings about what utilitarians would call “the greater good.” What is the “certain, bad...

..., kills the Queen, and thereby reduces the world’s population by one (5). And then comes the equally familiar question: How many things did the person do? (5) The austere theorist says that she did just one thing that we may describe in (at least) five different ways, thus asserting an identity between...

... if resolved correctly the agent’s life has been permanently morally marred by the dilemma, or even extinguished by it. One possible can- didate for such a dilemma is Williams’s notorious Jim and Pedro case, the case where Jim must decide between killing one of twenty innocent persons and let- ting all...

... where there is a live grenade. The only way to prevent the grenade from killing you is to lob it over a wall. However, you have a small amount of credence that there is an innocent person on the other side of the wall who will be killed if you lob the grenade. You are certain that lobbing the grenade...

... in the case of mice. On Kagan’s theory, moral status is a graded affair, with humans having a higher moral status than mice. Returning to our vaccine case, this is why even the adamant vegetarian shouldn’t flinch at running vaccine trials on mice: while killing nonhuman animals to eat involves trading...

.... The intention might be present and may also cause the intended behavior, yet the behavior may not be an intentional action; it may not be an action at all. The classic example is that of the nervous nephew who intends to kill his uncle to inherit his estate, and whose intention makes him so nervous...

... are not irrational, consider the following: When I see a performance of Romeo and Juliet, and the black cat, Tybalt, is about to slay Mercutio—oh!, how I do not want Mercutio to die! Would that he kill the cat! Nonetheless, if he is not slain—either because I am seeing a re-write of Shakespeare’s play...

...” not to be intentionally killed, harmed, cuckolded, deprived of property, or defamed-an implicit list of rights (136) that is derived ultimate- ly from the love of neighbor as oneself that Finnis argues is Aquinas’s basic principle of practical reasonableness. Finnis gives special attention Aquinas’s moral...

... McMahan, The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiii + 540 pp. 1. This is a book that aims to answer practical questions (such as whether and when abortion and euthanasia are permissible and how we should treat ani- mals and the retarded...

... BOOK REVIEWS Jeff McMahan, The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiii + 540 pp. 1. This is a book that aims to answer practical questions (such as whether and when abortion and euthanasia are permissible and how we should treat ani...

... McMahan, The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiii + 540 pp. 1. This is a book that aims to answer practical questions (such as whether and when abortion and euthanasia are permissible and how we should treat ani- mals and the retarded...

... McMahan, The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiii + 540 pp. 1. This is a book that aims to answer practical questions (such as whether and when abortion and euthanasia are permissible and how we should treat ani- mals and the retarded...

... McMahan, The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiii + 540 pp. 1. This is a book that aims to answer practical questions (such as whether and when abortion and euthanasia are permissible and how we should treat ani- mals and the retarded...

.../00318108-2006-038 272 BOOK REVIEWS Jeff McMahan, The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiii + 540 pp. 1. This is a book that aims to answer practical questions...

... McMahan, The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiii + 540 pp. 1. This is a book that aims to answer practical questions (such as whether and when abortion and euthanasia are permissible and how we should treat ani- mals and the retarded...

... McMahan, The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiii + 540 pp. 1. This is a book that aims to answer practical questions (such as whether and when abortion and euthanasia are permissible and how we should treat ani- mals and the retarded...