Different perspectives on saving lives

Economics and Philosophy 23 (1):89-96 (2007)
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In , John Broome defends a very weak consequentialist account of the value of saving lives. This paper challenges the commitments of this kind of account and describes some reasons for saving lives that would appeal to a non-consequentialist

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10.1017/s0266267107001241

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What we owe to each other.Thomas Scanlon - 1998 - Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Should the numbers count?John Taurek - 1977 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 6 (4):293-316.
Innumerate ethics.Derek Parfit - 1978 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 7 (4):285-301.
Can a Nonconsequentialist Count Lives?David Wasserman & Alan Strudler - 2003 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 31 (1):71-94.

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