On the more practical side, I m interested in whether the medical profession s current brain-death criterion for death is a true indicator of the death of anything, be it the death of a person or the human organism that constitutes it. Although it gives all agents some common aims, it does not give every agent the exact same set of aims. However, neither Sen nor anyone else has explored whether any substantive version of this new structural possibility can rival current popular versions of deontology and consequentialism, as I do. Thus my current terminology differs from that used in my dissertation. One should suppose that each murder is comparable not only in terms of the harm it will cause but also in terms of the motives, intentions, and characters of the agents in question.
Many philosophers take the objective view to be the view from nowhere.
190-212 and Kamm s Morality, Mortality , Vol.