Double-Effect Reasoning: Doing Good and Avoiding Evil

Double-Effect Reasoning: Doing Good and Avoiding Evil

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-256

  Cavanaugh, T A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolutism; Aquinas; Consequences; Consequentialism; Double effect reasoning; Ethical relevance; Ethics; Euthanasia; Exceptionless moral norms; Foresight

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921958855     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199272190.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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