El peso de los daños

THE WEIGHT OF HARM: HARMED STATES AND REASONS AGAINST HARMING
[El peso de los daños: estado de daño y razones para no dañar]

Santiago Truccone Borgogno
Conicet
Centro de Investigaciones Jurídicas y Sociales (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)
Programa de Ética y Teoría Política (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)
Caseros 301, Ciudad de Córdoba, Córdoba (Argentina)
santiagotruccone@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

In this paper I intend to analyse the meaning of harm as well as the strength of the reasons against harming provided by harm-states. I will argue that there are two kinds of harms: absolute harms and relative harms. Also, I will argue that when certain harm has been completely covered by considering such harm as absolute, the consideration of such harm as –also– relative is displaced. Such considerations should be taken into account when the suffered harms cannot be entirely explained by considerations regarding absolute harms. If these claims are right, we will have guidelines to measure, among other things, the agent´s moral responsibility in different kind of cases.

Keywords: Counterfactual – Harm – Reasons – Responsibility – Threshold

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