Innocence lost: an examination of inescapable moral wrongdoing
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1. Verfasser: Gowans, Christopher W. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1994
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-245) and index
1. "The Angel Must Hang!": Inescapable Moral Wrongdoing in Melville's Billy Budd; 2. Methodological Issues: Reflective Intuitionism; 3. Arguments for the Dilemmas Thesis; 4. A Prescriptivist Argument against the Dilemmas Thesis; 5. The Phenomenological Argument for the Remainders Thesis; 6. Responsibilities to Persons: An Explanation of Inescapable Moral Distress; 7. Utilitarian Critiques of the Phenomenological Argument; 8. Kantian Critiques of the Phenomenological Argument; 9. Innocence Lost; Bibliography; Index
Our lives are such that moral wrongdoing is sometimes inescapable for us, for we have moral responsibilites to persons which may conflict and which are wrong to violate even when they do conflict. This text argues that we must accept this conclusion if we are to make sense of our moral experiences
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 257 p.)
ISBN:0195085175
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