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- Title
If This Is My Body ... : A Defence of the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing.
- Authors
Woollard, Fiona
- Abstract
I defend the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing: the claim that doing harm is harder to justify than merely allowing harm. A thing does not genuinely belong to a person unless he has special authority over it. The Doctrine of Doing and Allowing protects us against harmful imposition - against the actions or needs of another intruding on what is ours. This protection is necessary for something to genuinely belong to a person. The opponent of the Doctrine must claim that nothing genuinely belongs to a person, even his own body.
- Subjects
THOUGHT experiments; DOUBLE effect (Ethics); HARM (Ethics); ETHICS; PHILOSOPHY
- Publication
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2013, Vol 94, Issue 3, p315
- ISSN
0279-0750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/papq.12002