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Double effect, principle of

2018
‘Double effect’ refers to the good and bad effects which may foreseeably follow from one and the same act. The principle of double effect originates in Aquinas’ ethics, and is supposed to guide decision about acts with double effect where the bad effect is something that must not be intended, such as the death of an innocent person.
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The Principle of Double Effect and Terminal Sedation

Medical Law Review, 2001
Williams, Glenys, 'The Principle of Double Effect and Terminal Sedation', Medical Law Review, 9 (2001), pp.41-53 ...
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The Principle of Double Effect

2000
Abstract St Thomas Aquinas, in discussing killing in self-defence, remarks that one and the same action may have two effects, one of them intended, and the other beside the intention. Later Catholic theologians developed from this a doctrine of double effect, stated as follows by John of St Thomas. If an act, not evil in itself, has both
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The Gosport inquiry and the principle of double effect

British Journal of Nursing, 2018
Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, restates the requirements of the principle of double effect that seeks to ensure that patients in intractable pain receive the analgesia they require to manage it
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Killing and the Principle of Double Effect

Scottish Journal of Theology, 1988
When we raise the question of whether the pleasures of the human body are as valuable as those of the human mind — whether, for example, pushpin is as good as poetry — it is quite possible that people will disagree on their answers. But we would also expect most people to agree with the assertion that the death of a human being would generally be a bad
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The Principle of Double Effect

2018
This chapter is an evaluation of the principle of double effect. The principle of double effect is a principle congenial to the just war theory and is appealed to by just war theorists. It is a principle that under certain circumstances can relieve perpetrators of war actions that inflict suffering on innocents (or have other harmful or evil effects ...
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The Function of the Principle of Double Effect

Theological Studies, 1993
With considerable frequency moral dilemmas have prompted ethicists to turn to the principle of double effect. Questions concerning sterilization, prophylactic devices, hunger-fasts, military strikes, and euthanasia have made us think of the principle as a handy problem-solving device. Raise a moral conflict, and the principle is profered.
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Reconstructing the Principle of Double Effect

2013
This chapter re-evaluates the Principle of Double Effect as it often manifests itself in health care decisions (typically involving the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration to the seriously ill) and suggests a way to improve its application as a construct for humane decisionmaking. Rather than ascertaining, under the Principle, when conduct is ethical—
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Toward Understanding the Principle of Double Effect

Ethics, 1980
The Principle of Double Effect (hereafter PDE) has long been a mainstay of Catholic moral thinking.' In recent years, however, the use and discussion of this doctrine have not been limited to Catholics or to theologians.' The PDE, or propositions closely related to it, have come up for considerable discussion by English-speaking philosophers.3 In spite
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The Principle of Double Effect, Permissiveness, and Intention

International Philosophical Quarterly, 2019
While some believe that the principle of double effect provides sound ethical guidance, others believe that it does not and have leveled various types of argument against it. One type of argument leveled against it proceeds by applying it to hypothetical “closeness” cases.
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