Bad Things: The Nature and Normative Role of Harm Feit Neil
Bad Things: The Nature and Normative Role of Harm Feit Neil Bad Things addresses various philosophical questions about the nature and moral relevance of harm. Neil Feit focuses primarily on the…
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Bad Things: The Nature and Normative Role of Harm Feit Neil
Bad Things addresses various philosophical questions about the nature and moral relevance of harm. Neil Feit focuses primarily on the metaphysics of harm, and he both defends and extends the counterfactual comparative account of harm. The most basic question is this: under what conditions does an event (or do some events) harm a given individual?
The counterfactual comparative account is widely accepted but also widely criticized. On this account, in its most basic form, an act or event harms an individual provided that she would have been better off if it had not occurred. Feit provides detailed and thorough responses to the most challenging objections.
He argues that an adequate theory of harm should entail the counterfactual comparative account but also make room for a certain kind plural harm, where two or more events together harm an individual although neither one by
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