Harming, rescuing and the necessity constraint
In The Morality of Defensive Force, Quong defends a powerful account of the grounds and conditions under which an agent may justifiably inflict serious harm on another person. In this paper, I examine Quong’s account of the necessity constraint on permissible harming - the RESCUE account. I argue th...
Main Author: | Fabre, C |
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Nature
2021
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