Living with the dragon : thinking and acting ethically in a world of unintended consequences /
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| Author / Creator: | Koehn, Daryl, 1955- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, 2010. |
| Description: | x, 171 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7921077 |
| Summary: | The book consists of a short introduction to the significance of unintended consequences and four chapters. The first chapter develops a typology of unintended consequences and distinguishes them from historical contingencies. The second chapter analyzes three types of causes of such consequences: worldly, practical and psychological causes. The third explores the significant problems these consequences pose for standard moral theories. The fourth and final chapter examines how we might begin both to think about and cope with unintended consequences in an ethically good way. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 171 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780415874960 0415874963 9780415874977 0415874971 9780203859872 0203859871 |