Author: Paul A. Woodward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Philosophers and ethicists debate this controversial moral principle (including actions, intentions, consequences, unintended consequenses, intentional-unintentional evil, etc.) illustrating its application to current moral dilemmas such as war, suicide, nuclear power, affirmative action, and morphine use for terminal cancer patients.
The Doctrine of Double Effect
Author: Paul A. Woodward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Philosophers and ethicists debate this controversial moral principle (including actions, intentions, consequences, unintended consequenses, intentional-unintentional evil, etc.) illustrating its application to current moral dilemmas such as war, suicide, nuclear power, affirmative action, and morphine use for terminal cancer patients.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Philosophers and ethicists debate this controversial moral principle (including actions, intentions, consequences, unintended consequenses, intentional-unintentional evil, etc.) illustrating its application to current moral dilemmas such as war, suicide, nuclear power, affirmative action, and morphine use for terminal cancer patients.
Double-Effect Reasoning
Author: T. A. Cavanaugh
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199272190
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
"T. A. Cavanaugh articulates and defends double-effect reasoning (DER), also known as the principle of double effect. Cavanaugh here offers the first book-length account of the history and issues surrounding this controversial, yet indispensable approach to hard cases."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199272190
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
"T. A. Cavanaugh articulates and defends double-effect reasoning (DER), also known as the principle of double effect. Cavanaugh here offers the first book-length account of the history and issues surrounding this controversial, yet indispensable approach to hard cases."--BOOK JACKET.
The Principle of Double Effect
Author: David Černý
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000061922
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This book offers a comprehensive history of the principle of double effect and its applications in ethics. Written from a non-theological perspective, it makes the case for the centrality of the double effect reasoning in philosophical ethics. The book is divided into two parts. The first part thoroughly examines the history of double effect reasoning. The author’s history spans from Thomas Aquinas’s opera omnia to the modern and influential understanding of the principle known as proportionalism. The second part of the book elucidates the principle and addresses various objections that have been raised against it, including those that arise from an in-depth discussion of the trolley problem. Finally, the author examines the role of intentions in ethical thinking and constructs a novel defense of the principle based on fine distinctions between intentions. The Principle of Double Effect: A History and Philosophical Defense will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in moral philosophy, the history of ethics, bioethics, medical ethics, and the Catholic moral tradition.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000061922
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This book offers a comprehensive history of the principle of double effect and its applications in ethics. Written from a non-theological perspective, it makes the case for the centrality of the double effect reasoning in philosophical ethics. The book is divided into two parts. The first part thoroughly examines the history of double effect reasoning. The author’s history spans from Thomas Aquinas’s opera omnia to the modern and influential understanding of the principle known as proportionalism. The second part of the book elucidates the principle and addresses various objections that have been raised against it, including those that arise from an in-depth discussion of the trolley problem. Finally, the author examines the role of intentions in ethical thinking and constructs a novel defense of the principle based on fine distinctions between intentions. The Principle of Double Effect: A History and Philosophical Defense will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in moral philosophy, the history of ethics, bioethics, medical ethics, and the Catholic moral tradition.
Ethics Without Intention
Author: Ezio Di Nucci
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472532961
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A critical analysis of double effect and its most common ethical and political applications such as collateral damage, palliative care, and the trolley problem
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472532961
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A critical analysis of double effect and its most common ethical and political applications such as collateral damage, palliative care, and the trolley problem
The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics
Author: Bonnie Steinbock
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199273359
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Bonnie Steinbock presents the authoritative, state-of-the-art guide to current issues in bioethics, covering 30 topics in original essays by some of the world's leading figures in the field, as well as by some newer 'up-and-comers'. Anyone who wants to know how the central debates in bioethics have developed in recent years, and where the debates are going, will want to consult this book.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199273359
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Bonnie Steinbock presents the authoritative, state-of-the-art guide to current issues in bioethics, covering 30 topics in original essays by some of the world's leading figures in the field, as well as by some newer 'up-and-comers'. Anyone who wants to know how the central debates in bioethics have developed in recent years, and where the debates are going, will want to consult this book.
Moral Dimensions
Author: T. M. Scanlon
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674057457
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
In a clear and elegant style, T. M. Scanlon reframes current philosophical debates as he explores the moral permissibility of an action. Permissibility may seem to depend on the agentÕs reasons for performing an action. For example, there seems to be an important moral difference between tactical bombing and a campaign by terroristsÑeven if the same number of non-combatants are killedÑand this difference may seem to lie in the agentsÕ respective aims. However, Scanlon argues that the apparent dependence of permissibility on the agentÕs reasons in such cases is merely a failure to distinguish between two kinds of moral assessment: assessment of the permissibility of an action and assessment of the way an agent decided what to do. Distinguishing between these two forms of assessment leads Scanlon to an important distinction between the permissibility of an action and its meaning: the significance for others of the agentÕs willingness to act in this way. An actionÕs meaning depends on the agentÕs reasons for performing it in a way that its permissibility does not. Blame, he argues, is a response to the meaning of an action rather than its permissibility. This analysis leads to a novel account of the conditions of moral responsibility and to important conclusions about the ethics of blame.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674057457
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
In a clear and elegant style, T. M. Scanlon reframes current philosophical debates as he explores the moral permissibility of an action. Permissibility may seem to depend on the agentÕs reasons for performing an action. For example, there seems to be an important moral difference between tactical bombing and a campaign by terroristsÑeven if the same number of non-combatants are killedÑand this difference may seem to lie in the agentsÕ respective aims. However, Scanlon argues that the apparent dependence of permissibility on the agentÕs reasons in such cases is merely a failure to distinguish between two kinds of moral assessment: assessment of the permissibility of an action and assessment of the way an agent decided what to do. Distinguishing between these two forms of assessment leads Scanlon to an important distinction between the permissibility of an action and its meaning: the significance for others of the agentÕs willingness to act in this way. An actionÕs meaning depends on the agentÕs reasons for performing it in a way that its permissibility does not. Blame, he argues, is a response to the meaning of an action rather than its permissibility. This analysis leads to a novel account of the conditions of moral responsibility and to important conclusions about the ethics of blame.
Continuous Sedation at the End of Life
Author: Sigrid Sterckx
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107039215
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This book brings together clinicians, ethicists and lawyers to put the practice of continuous sedation under a critical spotlight.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107039215
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This book brings together clinicians, ethicists and lawyers to put the practice of continuous sedation under a critical spotlight.
Morality and Action
Author: Warren Quinn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521446969
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This collection contains Warren Quinn's most important contributions to moral philosophy and has been edited for publication by Philippa Foot.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521446969
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This collection contains Warren Quinn's most important contributions to moral philosophy and has been edited for publication by Philippa Foot.
Encyclopedia of Global Justice
Author: Deen K. Chatterjee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781784027018
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Encyclopedia is an international, interdisciplinary, and collaborative project, spanning all the relevant areas of scholarship related to issues of global justice, and edited and advised by leading scholars from around the world. The wide-ranging entries present the latest ideas on this complex subject by authors who are at the cutting edge of inquiry.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781784027018
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Encyclopedia is an international, interdisciplinary, and collaborative project, spanning all the relevant areas of scholarship related to issues of global justice, and edited and advised by leading scholars from around the world. The wide-ranging entries present the latest ideas on this complex subject by authors who are at the cutting edge of inquiry.
Experimental Ethics
Author: C. Lütge
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137409800
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Moral philosophy is no longer being pursued from arm-chairs. Instead, ethical questions are dissected in the experimental lab. This volume enables its readers to immerse themselves into Experimental Ethics' history, its current topics and future perspectives, its methodology, and the criticism it is subject to.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137409800
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Moral philosophy is no longer being pursued from arm-chairs. Instead, ethical questions are dissected in the experimental lab. This volume enables its readers to immerse themselves into Experimental Ethics' history, its current topics and future perspectives, its methodology, and the criticism it is subject to.