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Ethics Without Intention (Hardcover)
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Ethics Without Intention (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Ethics
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Ethics Without Intention tackles the questions raised by difficult
moral dilemmas by providing a critical analysis of double effect
and its most common ethical and political applications. The book
discusses the philosophical distinction between intended harm and
foreseen but unintended harm. This distinction, which, according to
the doctrine of double effect, makes a difference to the moral
justification of actions, is widely applied to some of the most
controversial ethical and political questions of our time:
collateral damages in wars and acts of terrorism; palliative care,
euthanasia, abortion, and embryo research; self-defence, suicide,
and self-sacrifice. It is also crucial to the now notorious
theoretical cases of the trolley problem and the knobe effect. Di
Nucci approaches the doctrine of double effect from four key
directions: its historical origins, which can be traced further
back than the classic attribution to Aquinas; its theoretical
coherence, which is the subject of a lively contemporary debate in
philosophy; its moral intuitiveness, which has always been taken
for granted but has recently begun to be questioned; and finally
its relevance to the difficult moral and political decisions of our
time. An engaging and comprehensive introduction to the doctrine of
double effect.
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