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Millgram, Elijah | Does the categorical imperative give rise to a contradiction in the will? | The Brave New World-style utilitarian dystopia is a familiar feature of the cultural landscape; Kantian dystopias are harder to come by, perhaps because, until Rawls, Kantian morality presented itself as a primarily personal rather than political program. This asymmetry is peculiar for formal reas... | Categorical imperative; Dystopia; Self-refutation | 2003 |
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Chatterjee, Deen | Moral distance: introduction | This issue of The Monist is devoted to the question of how we should gauge the moral significance of distance. "Moral distance," by analogy with "aesthetic distance," may signify degrees of moral indifference, but that is not the theme we are concerned with here. The problem of distance in mora... | Distance; Boundaries; Morality | 2003 |
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Andreou, Chrisoula | Rationality and Freedom by Amartya Sen [review] | A review of Rationality and Freedom, the first of two volumes of essays by Amartya Sen on rationality, freedom, and justice. | Book review; Rationality; Freedom; Justice | 2003 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Review of angels of death: exploring the euthanasia underground | Roger Magnusson's angels of death describes the practice of extralegal assisted suicide and euthanasia by physicians, nurses, technicians, and other health care professionals who provide care to seriously ill patients and patients with AIDS who are dying. It is based on a snowball sample of 49 detai... | 2003 | |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Scott Ames: a man giving up on himself | The tragic story of Scott Ames raises a fundamental question concerning involuntary commitment of patients when suicide seems likely. What right has a physician ever to interfere when apatient proposes to take his own life? Under ordinary cirucmstances one argues that because of depression, or some ... | Suicide prevention; Scott Ames | 2003 |
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