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Innocence Lost - An Examination of Inescapable Moral Wrongdoing (Hardcover)
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Innocence Lost - An Examination of Inescapable Moral Wrongdoing (Hardcover)
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Our lives are such that moral wrongdoing is sometimes inescapable
for us. We have moral responsibilities to persons which may
conflict and which it is wrong to violate even when they do
conflict. Christopher W. Gowans argues that we must accept this
conclusion if we are to make sense of our moral experience and the
way in which persons are valuable to us. In defending this
position, he critically examines the recent moral dilemmas debate.
He maintains that what is important in this debate is not whether
there are irresolvable moral conflicts, but whether there are moral
conflicts in which wrongdoing is unavoidable. Though it would be
incoherent to conclude moral deliberation by deciding to perform
incompatible actions, he argues that there is nothing incoherent in
supposing that we have conflicting moral responsibilities. In this
way, he shows that it is possible to capture the intuitions of
those who have defended the idea of moral dilemmas while meeting
the objections of those who have rejected this idea. Gowans
carefully evaluates utilitarian and Kantian analyses of moral
dilemmas. He argues that these approaches eliminate genuine moral
conflict only by displacing persons as direct objects of moral
concern. As an alternative, he develops a more concrete account in
which moral responsibilities to persons are central. On his
account, we have moral responsibilities to particular persons by
virtue of our appreciation of the intrinsic and unique value of
each of these persons and of our connections with them. Gowans
argues that when we think of our responsibilities in this way, we
have reason to believe that they sometimes conflict and that it is
wrong to violate them even when they doconflict. The book also
includes discussions of Melville's Billy Budd, methodology in moral
philosophy, moral pluralism, moral tragedy, and "dirty hands" in
politics.
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