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- In Harm to Others, Feinberg claimed that the sense of 'harm' appropriate to the harm principle is 'wrongful setback of interests'.
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In Harm to Others, Feinberg claimed that the sense of 'harm' appropriate to the harm principle is 'wrongful setback of interests'. The same approach is followed with the offense principle; the relevant sense of 'offense' is any of a set of disliked mental states "caused by the wrongful (right-violating) conduct of others" (pp. 1-2).
May 1, 2001 · Feinberg considers three possible senses of the word “harm”: harm as damage, harm as set-back to interests, and harm as wronging. He concludes that for the purposes of the harm principle, “harm” should be thought of as combining the last two senses: [T]he harm principle as a guide to the moral limits of the
Jan 29, 2022 · In his four-volume work, the Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Joel Feinberg sets out to defend a version of the harm principle that he takes to be firmly in the spirit of Mill (Feinberg 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990).
Aug 20, 1987 · After addressing difficult examples such as moral harm, vicious harm, prenatal harm, and posthumous harm, Feinberg considers both the moral status of a failure to prevent harm and the problems related to assessing, comparing, and imputing harms.
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Joel Feinberg's The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law will in the end consist of four volumes: volumes I, Harm to Others, and II, Offense to Others, are now in print; volumes III, Harm to Self, and IV, Harmless Wrongdoing, are promised within the next few years.
In his recent book, Harm to Others, Joel Feinberg addresses the question whether a person can be harmed after his or her own death, that is, whether posthumous harm is a logical possibility. There is a very strong tendency to suppose that harm to the dead is simply inconceivable.
Feinberg presents a detailed analysis of the concept and definition of harm and applies it to a host of practical and theoretical issues, showing how the harm principle must be interpreted if...
