The principle of double effect and proportionate reason

Virtual Mentor

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 369-374

  Kockler, Nicholas J ^a  

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EID: 84964534281     PISSN: 19377010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2007.9.5.pfor2-0705     Document Type: Review

References (18)

1. Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologiae. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, trans-ed. New York, NY: Benzinger Brothers; 1947:II, Q. 64, Art. 7.
2. Kelly DF. Contemporary Catholic Health Care Ethics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press; 2004: 108-123.
3. The “act-in-itself” is distinguished from the totality of the action, which includes the agent’s intention (end sought), the act itself, and the circumstances.
4. Kelly, 111-112.
5. Kelly, 113-116.
6. Walter JJ. The foundation and formulation of norms. In: Curran CE, ed. Moral Theology: Challenges for the Future, Essays in Honor of Richard A. McCormick, S.J. New York, NY: Paulist Press; 1990:132.
7. See, for example, Hoose B. Proportionalism: The American Debate and Its European Roots. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press; 1987;
8. Kaczor C, ed. Proportionalism: For and Against. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press; 2000.
9. Kelly, 111.
10. Walter JJ. Proportionate reason and its three levels of inquiry: structuring the ongoing debate. In: Kaczor CK, ed. Proportionalism: For and Against. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press; 2000:394.
11. Following Walter, I use the term “premoral” here to signify real value or disvalue that is present prior to an agent’s moral judgment or decision; such premoral values and disvalues are relevant for moral judgment and decisions but do not determine the morality of an action.
12. Walter, Proportionate reason, 394-395.
13. Walter, The foundation, 131.
14. Walter, Proportionate reason, 397.
15. Walter, Proportionate reason, 399-403.
16. See John Paul II. Veritatis Splendor. Vatican City: Vatican Press; August 6, 1993. http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jpii_enc_06081993_veritatis-splendor_en.html. Accessed April 13, 2007.
17. For examples, see McCormick RA. Some early reactions to Veritatis Splendor. Theological Studies. 1994;55:481-506;
18. Selling JA, Jans J, eds. The Splendor of Accuracy: An Examination of the Assertions Made by Veritatis Splendor. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Company; 1994.