Innocence lost : an examination of inescapable moral wrongdoing /

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Author / Creator:	Gowans, Christopher W.
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Decision making -- Moral and ethical aspects. Choice (Psychology) Choice (Psychology) Decision making -- Moral and ethical aspects. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11161849

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Varying Form of Title:	Inescapable moral wrongdoing
ISBN:	142374179X 9781423741794 0195359097 9780195359091 9780195085174 0195085175 1280442093 9781280442094 0195085175
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Gowans, Christopher W. Innocence lost. New York : Oxford University Press, 1994

Table of Contents:

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.

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