Double-Effect Reasoning
Subtitle: Doing Good and Avoiding Evil (Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: October 23, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780199272198
Description: 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.