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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cavanaugh, T. A.

Series:

Oxford studies in theological ethics.

Oxford studies in theological ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Double effect (Ethics).

Christian ethics--Catholic authors.

Christian ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

T. A. Cavanaugh defends double-effect reasoning (DER), also known as the principle of double effect. DER plays a role in anti-consequentialist ethics (such as deontology), in hard cases in which one cannot realize a good without also causing a foreseen, but not intended, bad effect (for example, killing non-combatants when bombing a military target). This study is the first book-length account of the history and issues surrounding this controversial approach to hard cases. It willbe indispensable in theoretical ethics, applied ethics (especially medical and military), and moral theology. It wi

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.

Notes:

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

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ISBN:

9786611164508

1-281-16450-X

0-19-153409-9

1-4356-3122-6

OCLC:

193514950