Innocence lost : an examination of inescapable moral wrongdoing / Christopher W. Gowans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gowans, Christopher W., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decision making--Moral and ethical aspects.

Decision making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Our lives are such that moral wrongdoing is sometimes inescapable for us, for we have moral responsibilites to persons which may conflict and which are wrong to violate even when they do conflict. This text argues that we must accept this conclusion if we are to make sense of our moral experiences.

Contents:

Contents; 1. ""The Angel Must Hang!"": Inescapable Moral Wrongdoing in Melville's Billy Budd; 2. Methodological Issues: Reflective Intuitionism; 3. Arguments for the Dilemmas Thesis; 4. A Prescriptivist Argument against the Dilemmas Thesis; 5. The Phenomenological Argument for the Remainders Thesis; 6. Responsibilities to Persons: An Explanation of Inescapable Moral Distress; 7. Utilitarian Critiques of the Phenomenological Argument; 8. Kantian Critiques of the Phenomenological Argument; 9. Innocence Lost; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773063-9

1-280-44209-3

0-19-535909-7

1-4237-4179-X

OCLC:

191952980