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Author Summers, Jesse S., author.

Title Clean hands? : philosophical lessons from scrupulosity / Jesse S. Summers, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 204 pages)
Contents Cases -- Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Scrupulosity -- Mental illness -- Character and virtue -- Moral judgments -- Responsibility -- Treatment
Summary People with Scrupulosity have rigorous, obsessive moral beliefs that lead to extreme and compulsive moral acts. These fascinating outliers raise profound questions about human nature, mental illness, moral belief, responsibility, and psychiatric treatment. Clean Hands? Uses a range of case studies to examine this condition and its philosophical implications
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 09, 2019)
Subject Scruples.
Psychiatry -- Philosophy.
Psychiatry -- Philosophy
Scruples
Form Electronic book
Author Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, 1955- author.
LC no. 2019980264
ISBN 9780190058708
0190058706
9780190058722
0190058722
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