If This Is My Body … : A Defence of the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing | Zendy

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If This Is My Body … : A Defence of the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing

Author(s) -

Woollard Fiona

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

pacific philosophical quarterly

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914

H-Index - 32

eISSN - 1468-0114

pISSN - 0279-0750

DOI - 10.1111/papq.12002

Subject(s) - nothing , harm , doctrine , adversary , philosophy , law and economics , epistemology , law , political science , sociology , computer security , computer science

I defend the D octrine of D oing and A llowing: the claim that doing harm is harder to justify than merely allowing harm. A thing does not genuinely belong to a person unless he has special authority over it. The D octrine of D oing and A llowing protects us against harmful imposition – against the actions or needs of another intruding on what is ours. This protection is necessary for something to genuinely belong to a person. The opponent of the D octrine must claim that nothing genuinely belongs to a person, even his own body.

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