Double-effect reasoning : doing good and avoiding evil

• Tác giả: T. A Cavanaugh
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 0199272190
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 170 Ethics (Moral philosophy)
• Thông tin xuất bản: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Mô tả vật lý: xxiv, 220 p. ; , 23 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tâm lý, Logic
• ID: 43366
• Chủ đề: 1. Christian ethics--Catholic authors; 2. Double effect (Ethics)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-209) and index.

Tóm tắt

"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.