Moral dilemmas / / Daniel Statman.

• Superior document: Value inquiry book series
• VerfasserIn: Statman, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Editions Rodopi B.V.,, [1995]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Language: English
• Series: Value inquiry book series.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (185 pages)

Moral dilemmas set a challenge for ethical theory. They are situations where agents seem to be under an obligation both to do, and to refrain from doing, a specific act. Are such situations possible? What is their exact nature? These are the questions that Moral Dilemmas tries to answer. The book ar...

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Chapter One: What Is a Moral Dilemma? 1 Dilemmas and Conflicts
• 2 Dilemmas: the Necessity of Doing Evil
• 3 Moral Uncertainty and Moral Dilemmas
• 4 Dilemmas and Tragedy
• 5 Types of Dilemmas
• 7 Summary
• Chapter Two: Are Dilemmas Possible? 1 The Argument from Permissibility
• 2 The Argument from Possibility
• 3 Ought Implies Can
• 4 Ethical Theory and Moral Dilemmas
• 5 The Alleged Neutrality of Deontic Logic
• Chapter Three: The Incommensurability of Values and Moral Dilemmas
• 1 The Idea of Incommensurability
• 2 The Incommensurability of Values
• 3 Are Incommensurable Values Comparable? 4 Moral Theory and the Plurality of Values
• Chapter Four: A Right Answer to Moral Dilemmas
• 1 Phenomenological Arguments
• 2 Theoretical Arguments
• 3 Skeptical Considerations
• 4 Moral Objections to RAT
• 5 Prima Facie and Actual Obligations
• Chapter Five: Are Dilemmas Real? 1 On the Defeasibility of Duties
• 2 Arguments for the Reality of the Overridden Duty
• 3 Guilt Feelings and Dirty Hands
• 4 External Justification for Guilt-Feelings
• 5 Moral Costs and Internal Justification for Regret
• 6 Moral Dilemmas and Moral Luck
• 7 The So-Called Reality of the Overridden Duty
• Summary of the Argument
• Notes
• References
• About the Author
• Index.