Suffering and moral responsibility /

Main Author: Mayerfeld, Jamie.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series:Oxford ethics series
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The meaning of suffering
  • The measurement of suffering
  • The moral significance of suffering
  • The duty to relieve suffering
  • The moral asymmetry of happiness and suffering
  • Trade-offs internal to the duty to relieve suffering
  • The limits of the duty to relieve suffering.