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Double-effect reasoning : doing good and avoiding evil / T.A. Cavanaugh.

By: Cavanaugh, T. A
Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford studies in theological ethics: Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: xxiv, 220 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0199272190; 9780199272198Subject(s): Double effect (Ethics) | Christian ethics -- Catholic authorsLOC classification: BJ1500.D68 | C38 2006Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-209) and index.Also available on the Internet to subscribing institutions.
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.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BJ1500 .D68 C38 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903566129

Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-209) and index.

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.

Also available on the Internet to subscribing institutions.

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