Innocence lost : an examination of inescapable moral wrongdoing /

Main Author: Gowans, Christopher W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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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.