Killing and Other Dastardly Deeds

A powerful and probing critique of the ethical permissibility of serious harmsIn Killing and Other Dastardly Deeds, eminent philosopher John Hawthorne rigorously probes the commonsense morality of killing and other serious harms, exposing troubling issues at the foundations of ethical thought.The book addresses the ethical significance of causatives, focusing on the contrast between actions that a...