Ethics Without Intention

by Ezio Di Nucci

Book Overview

Ethics Without Intention tackles the questions raised by difficult moral dilemmas by providing a critical analysis of double effect and its most common ethical and political applications. The book discusses the philosophical distinction between intended harm and foreseen but unintended harm. This distinction, which, according to the doctrine of double effect, makes a difference to the moral justification of actions, is widely applied to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472523008
• ISBN13: 9781472523006
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.8"