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Scanlon reframes current philosophical debates as he explores the moral permissibility of an action. Blame, he argues, is a response to the meaning of an action rather than its permissibility. This analysis leads to a novel account of the conditions of moral responsibility and to important conclusions about the ethics of blame.

Table of Contents:
Contents Preface Introduction 1. The Illusory Appeal of Double Effect 2. The Significance of Intent 3. Means and Ends 4. Blame Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
T. M. Scanlon is Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity at Harvard University.

Review :
Scanlon offers a detailed account of a new analysis of key distinctions in theoretical ethics. These distinctions have very real consequences in a wide variety of practical issues, including debates regarding justified acts of war, the effort to justify terror or campaigns against terror, and seemingly intractable debates in biomedical ethics. Scanlon examines the permissibility of actions and the evaluations of actors, with a new account of both the initial--and as he sees it, illusory--attraction of the "doctrine of double effect." He argues that the illusion stems from confusion between two types of moral judgment, which apply principles in what Scanlon terms either "critical" or "deliberative" uses. Scanlon uses this difference to make an important new distinction between the permissibility of actions and their meaning, and to develop accounts of blame (linked to the meaning of an action) and moral responsibility that bear close attention. -- J. H. Barker Choice 20090301 The first half of the book, on permissibility and meaning, amounts to masterful and insightful philosophical housekeeping. The second half is revolutionary in the ways it tells us to think about blame. -- Allan Gibbard London Review of Books 20090528 Moral Dimensions is a penetrating study that forces--and enables--us to see the moral landscape in a fresh and nuanced way...Moral Dimensions culminates in a masterly exploration of blame, understood as a distinctive response to meaning. -- Gary Watson Times Literary Supplement 20110211


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780674043145
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: The Belknap Press
  • Edition: Digital original
  • No of Pages: 264
  • ISBN-10: 0674043146
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame


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