Intention Character And Double Effect

Author : Lawrence Masek
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268104726

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Intention, Character, and Double Effect by Lawrence Masek Pdf

The principle of double effect has a long history, from scholastic disputations about self-defense and scandal to current debates about terrorism, torture, euthanasia, and abortion. Despite being widely debated, the principle remains poorly understood. In Intention, Character, and Double Effect, Lawrence Masek combines theoretical and applied questions into a systematic defense of the principle that does not depend on appeals to authority or intuitions about cases. Masek argues that actions can be wrong because they corrupt the agent's character and that one must consider the agent's perspective to determine which effects the agent intends. This defense of the principle clears up common confusions and overcomes critics' objections, including confusions about trolley and transplant cases and objections from neuroscience and moral psychology. This book will interest scholars and students in different fields of study, including moral philosophy, action theory, moral theology, and moral psychology. Its discussion of contemporary ethical issues and sparse use of technical jargon make it suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses in applied ethics. The appendix summarizes the main cases that have been used to illustrate or to criticize the principle of double effect.

Author : Lawrence J. Masek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 0268104719

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Intention, Character, and Double Effect by Lawrence J. Masek Pdf

Author : Joshua Stuchlik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781316516522

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Intention and Wrongdoing by Joshua Stuchlik Pdf

A comprehensive defense of the principle of double effect and the importance of intentions for normative ethics.

Author : David Černý
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000061925

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The Principle of Double Effect by David Černý Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive history of the principle of double effect and its applications in ethics. Written from a non-theological perspective, it makes the case for the centrality of the double effect reasoning in philosophical ethics. The book is divided into two parts. The first part thoroughly examines the history of double effect reasoning. The author’s history spans from Thomas Aquinas’s opera omnia to the modern and influential understanding of the principle known as proportionalism. The second part of the book elucidates the principle and addresses various objections that have been raised against it, including those that arise from an in-depth discussion of the trolley problem. Finally, the author examines the role of intentions in ethical thinking and constructs a novel defense of the principle based on fine distinctions between intentions. The Principle of Double Effect: A History and Philosophical Defense will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in moral philosophy, the history of ethics, bioethics, medical ethics, and the Catholic moral tradition.

Author : Brian Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004515482

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A History of Military Morals by Brian Smith Pdf

This historiography demonstrates how theorists have rationalized killing the innocent in war. It shows how moral arguments about killing the innocent respond to material conditions, and it explains how we have arrived at the post-World War II convention.

Author : Craig M. White
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000810967

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Acts, Intentions, and Moral Evaluation by Craig M. White Pdf

This book argues that the moral quality of an act comes from the agent’s inner states. By arguing for the indispensable relevance of intention in the moral evaluation of acts, the book moves against a mainstream, "objective" approach in normative ethics. It is commonly held that the intentions, knowledge, and volition of agents are irrelevant to the moral permissibility of their acts. This book stresses that the capacities of agency, rather than simply the label "agent," must be engaged during an act if its moral evaluation is to be coherent. The author begins with an ontological argument that an act is a motion or a causing of change in something else. He argues that the source of an act’s moral meaning is in the agent: specifically, what the agent, if aware of relevant facts around her, aims to accomplish. He then moves to a series of critical chapters that consider arguments for mainstream approaches to act evaluation, including Thomson’s dismissal of the agent knowledge and volition requirements, Scanlon’s arguments for a derivative relevance of intentions to permissibility, Frowe’s "causal roles" of agents in the moral evaluation of acts, and Bennett’s explicit defense of the objective approach. The book concludes by offering the author’s preferred replacement for the objective approach, an Aristotelian-Thomist view of acts. Acts, Intentions, and Moral Evaluation will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics, just war theory, the ethics of self-defense, and philosophy of action.

Author : Nathan Emmerich,Pierre Mallia,Bert Gordijn,Francesca Pistoia
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030400330

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Contemporary European Perspectives on the Ethics of End of Life Care by Nathan Emmerich,Pierre Mallia,Bert Gordijn,Francesca Pistoia Pdf

This book examines the ethics of end of life care, focusing on the kinds of decisions that are commonly made in clinical practice. Specific attention is paid to the intensification of treatment for terminal symptoms, particularly pain relief, and the withdrawal and withholding of care, particularly life-saving or life-prolonging medical care. The book is structured into three sections. The first section contains essays examining end of life care from the perspective of moral theory and theology. The second sets out various conceptual terms and distinctions relevant to decision-making at the end of life. The third section contains chapters that focus on substantive ethical issues. This format not only provides for a comprehensive analysis of the ethical issues that arise in the context of end of life care but allows readers to effectively trace the philosophical, theological and conceptual underpinnings that inform their specific interests. This work will be of interest to scholars working in the area as well as clinicians, specialists and healthcare professionals who encounter these issues in the course of their practice.

Author : Paul A. Woodward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015051299736

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The Doctrine of Double Effect by Paul A. Woodward Pdf

Philosophers and ethicists debate this controversial moral principle (including actions, intentions, consequences, unintended consequenses, intentional-unintentional evil, etc.) illustrating its application to current moral dilemmas such as war, suicide, nuclear power, affirmative action, and morphine use for terminal cancer patients.

Author : John Schwenkler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190052041

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Anscombe's Intention by John Schwenkler Pdf

Written against the background of her controversial opposition to the University of Oxford's awarding of an honorary degree to Harry S. Truman, Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention laid the groundwork she thought necessary for a proper ethical evaluation of actions like the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The devoutly Catholic Anscombe thought that these actions made Truman a murderer, and thus unworthy of the university's honor-but that this verdict depended on an understanding of intentional action that had been widely rejected in contemporary moral philosophy. Intention was her attempt to work out that understanding and argue for its superiority over a conception of intention as an inner mental state. Though recognized universally as one of the definitive works in analytic philosophy of action, Anscombe's book is often dismissed as unsystematic or obscure, and usually read through the lens of philosophical concerns very far from her own. Schwenkler's Guide offers a careful and critical presentation of Anscombe's main lines of argument at a level appropriate to advanced undergraduates but also capable of benefiting specialists in action theory, moral philosophy, and the history of analytic philosophy. Further, it situates Intention in a context that emphasizes Anscombe's debts to Aristotle, Aquinas, and Wittgenstein, and her engagement with the work of contemporaries like Gilbert Ryle and R.M. Hare, inviting new avenues of engagement with the ideas of historically important philosophers.

Author : Marilyn McCord Adams,John Hare,Linda Zagzebski,Laura Garcia,Bruce Russell,Stephen J. Wykstra,Stephen Maitzen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253024381

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Ethics and the Problem of Evil by Marilyn McCord Adams,John Hare,Linda Zagzebski,Laura Garcia,Bruce Russell,Stephen J. Wykstra,Stephen Maitzen Pdf

Provocative essays that seek “to turn the attention of analytic philosophy of religion on the problem of evil . . . towards advances in ethical theory” (Reading Religion). The contributors to this book—Marilyn McCord Adams, John Hare, Linda Zagzebski, Laura Garcia, Bruce Russell, Stephen Wykstra, and Stephen Maitzen—attended two University of Notre Dame conferences in which they addressed the thesis that there are yet untapped resources in ethical theory for affecting a more adequate solution to the problem of evil. The problem of evil has been an extremely active area of study in the philosophy of religion for many years. Until now, most sources have focused on logical, metaphysical, and epistemological issues, leaving moral questions as open territory. With the resources of ethical theory firmly in hand, this volume provides lively insight into this ageless philosophical issue. “These essays—and others—will be of primary interest to scholars working in analytic philosophy of religion from a self-consciously Christian standpoint, but its audience is not limited to such persons. The book offers illustrative examples of how scholars in philosophy of religion understand their aims and how they go about making their arguments . . . hopefully more work will follow this volume’s lead.”—Reading Religion “Recommended.”—Choice

Author : T. A. Cavanaugh
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191534096

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Double-Effect Reasoning by T. A. Cavanaugh Pdf

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 will be indispensable in theoretical ethics, applied ethics (especially medical and military), and moral theology. It will also interest legal and public policy scholars.

Author : G. E. M. Anscombe
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0674003993

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Intention by G. E. M. Anscombe Pdf

Intention is one of the masterworks of twentieth-century philosophy in English. First published in 1957, it has acquired the status of a modern philosophical classic. The book attempts to show in detail that the natural and widely accepted picture of what we mean by an intention gives rise to insoluble problems and must be abandoned. This is a welcome reprint of a book that continues to grow in importance.

Author : Ezio Di Nucci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Double effect
ISBN : 1472594347

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Ethics Without Intention by Ezio Di Nucci Pdf

Author : Haig A. Khatchadourian
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781725229297

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The Morality of Terrorism by Haig A. Khatchadourian Pdf

The Morality of Terrorism argues that terrorism violates certain human rights, just war, and consequentialist moral principles, and so is always wrong. In distinguishing "freedom fighting" from terrorism, this study lays down stringent conditions derived from just war theory, for the moral justifiability of "freedom fighting" such as some revolutions, civil wars, and guerrilla warfare. This book then evaluates the morality of actual and possible judicial and military responses to terrorism by targeted governments. An appendix provides a case study (the Palestinian problem) of root causes of political and moralistic-religious terrorism.

Author : Nigel Biggar
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191652936

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In Defence of War by Nigel Biggar Pdf

Pacifism is popular. Many hold that war is unnecessary, since peaceful means of resolving conflict are always available, if only we had the will to look for them. Or they believe that war is wicked, essentially involving hatred of the enemy and carelessness of human life. Or they posit the absolute right of innocent individuals not to be deliberately killed, making it impossible to justify war in practice. Peace, however, is not simple. Peace for some can leave others at peace to perpetrate mass atrocity. What was peace for the West in 1994 was not peace for the Tutsis of Rwanda. Therefore, against the virus of wishful thinking, anti-military caricature, and the domination of moral deliberation by rights-talk In Defence of War asserts that belligerency can be morally justified, even though tragic and morally flawed.