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Cullity, Garrett
Department of Philosophy, University of Adelaide
Print publication date: 2004 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2005 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925811-6 doi:10.1093/0199258112.003.0002 |
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Many writers have followed Peter Singer in drawing an analogy between assisting needy people at a distance and saving someone’s life directly. Arguments based on this analogy can take either a subsumptive or a non-subsumptive form. Such arguments face a serious methodological challenge.
Keywords: analogy, helping, saving life, Singer, subsumption,
doi:10.1093/0199258112.003.0002
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