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Double-Effect Reasoning

by T. A. Cavanaugh

Cover of Double-Effect Reasoning

What should you do when you cannot achieve good without also causing a foreseen, but not intended, evil? This book articulates, and defends, an ancient approach to this common problem, the so-called 'double-effect' reasoning.

Double effect (Ethics)Christian ethicsCatholic authorsReligion, philosophyGood and evil