| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 220 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford studies in theological ethics |
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Oxford studies in theological ethics.
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| Contents |
The history of double-effect reasoning -- Aquinas's originating account -- Developments of Thomas's account -- Simplifying the received criteria -- The contemporary conversation -- Proportionalism -- Anti-consequentialist deontological alternatives to DER -- Contemporary versions of DER -- The i/f distinction : distinguishing intent from foresight -- Coming to terms -- The problem of closeness -- Responses to the problem of closeness -- An account of intention -- Application to contrasted cases -- The i/f distinction's ethical import -- Common misunderstandings of the i/f distinction's relevance -- The first-order/second-order distinction -- The distinction's ethical relevance -- DER and remaining considerations -- DER and reparations -- DER and allowing -- DER and the wrongful acts of other agents -- Double effect, non-combatant casualties, and the laws of war -- Double effect and public policy concerning euthanasia -- Double effect as applied to wrongful acts and the law -- DER in law --DER and Roman Catholic moral theology |
| Summary |
What should you do when you cannot achieve good without also causing a foreseen, but not intended, evil? This book articulates, and defends, an ancient approach to this common problem, the so-called 'double-effect' reasoning |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-209) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Double effect (Ethics)
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Christian ethics -- Catholic authors.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Christian ethics -- Catholic authors
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Double effect (Ethics)
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Doppelwirkung
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Christliche Ethik
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Goed en kwaad.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006009924 |
| ISBN |
9781435631229 |
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1435631226 |
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0199272190 |
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9780199272198 |
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9786611164508 |
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6611164502 |
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0191534099 |
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9780191534096 |
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