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Blocked Exchanges Revisited
Author(s) -
Machan Tibor R.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of applied philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5930
pISSN - 0264-3758
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5930.00061
Subject(s) - prudence , virtue , pace , order (exchange) , law and economics , law , philosophy , sociology , economics , political science , epistemology , geodesy , finance , geography
This paper reconsiders the topic of blocked exchanges. It has been argued by some philosophers and social theorists that in order to encourage people to make donations of, e.g., blood, the sale of such items should be banned by law or public policy. In this paper I argue that (a) donations made without the option of selling are morally diminished and (b) selling such items isn’t morally wrong or even insignificant in all cases since prudence (which is a moral virtue, pace Kant) may require that one sell them.