Agent-Centered Restrictions: Clearing the Air of Paradox  

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Hurley, Paul

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 108 no. 1 (Oct. 1997), page 120-146.
Topik: Paradox; Agent; Restriction; Critics

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE44.4 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Even critics of Agent-centered restrictions typically concede that such restrictions initially appear to make sense. They readily allow that if intuition alone is consulted, agents are often morally prohibited from performing the action that will bring about the best available state of affairs. Such restrictions are typically generated in cases in which the action that will bring about the best stste of affairs is an action that will require the agent to do great harm. They stem from the recognition of requirements to avoid doing harm. Indeed, Samuel Scheffler rightly characterizes the commonsense appeal of some such requirements or rules, and that of agent-centered restrictions themselves, as "twosides of the same coin. An agent-centered restriction results when such requirements to avoid doing harm provide decisive grounds for acting contary to requirements to prevent even greater harm from happening or promote even greater benefit (in what follows simply "to prevent harm").

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