Double-effect reasoning : doing good and avoiding evil

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

What should you do when you cannot achieve good without also causing a foreseen, but not intended, evil? This book articulates, and defends, an ancient approach to this common problem, the so-called 'double-effect' reasoning.

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Main Author: Cavanaugh, T. A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:Oxford studies in theological ethics.
Subjects:
Double effect (Ethics)
Christian ethics > Catholic authors.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Christian ethics > Catholic authors
Doppelwirkung
Christliche Ethik
Goed en kwaad.
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