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When Doing the Right Thing Is Impossible (Hardcover)
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When Doing the Right Thing Is Impossible (Hardcover)
Series: Philosophy in Action
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Suppose that in an emergency evacuation of a hospital after a
flood, not all of the patients can make it out alive. You are the
doctor faced with the choice between abandoning these patients to
die alone and in pain, or injecting them with a lethal dose of
drugs, without consent, so that they die peacefully. Perhaps no one
will be able to blame you whatever you decide, but, whichever
action you choose, you will remain burdened by guilt. What happens,
in cases like this, when, no matter what you do, you are destined
for moral failure? What happens when there is no available means of
doing the right thing? Human life is filled with such impossible
moral decisions. These choices and case studies that demonstrate
them form the focus of Lisa Tessman's arresting and provocative
work. Many philosophers believe that there are simply no situations
in which what you morally ought to do is something that you can't
do, because they think that you can't be required to do something
unless it's actually in your power to do it. Despite this, real
life presents us daily with situations in which we feel that we
have failed morally even when no right action would have been
possible. Lisa Tessman boldly argues that sometimes we feel this
way because we have encountered an 'impossible moral requirement.'
Drawing on philosophy, empirical psychology, and evolutionary
theory, When Doing the Right Thing Is Impossible explores how and
why human beings have constructed moral requirements to be binding
even when they are impossible to fulfill.
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