AuthorCavanaugh, T. A
TitleDouble-effect reasoning [electronic resource] : doing good and avoiding evil / T.A. Cavanaugh
Imprint Oxford : Clarendon, 2006
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/0199272190.001.0001
Descript 1 online resource (xxiv, 220 p.)

SUMMARY

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


SUBJECT

  1. Double effect (Ethics)
  2. Good and evil
  3. Christian ethics