Moral failure : on the impossible demands of morality /

Tessman points out a tendency to not acknowledge the difficulties that impossible moral requirements and unavoidable moral failures create in moral life, and traces this tendency through several different literatures, from scholarship on Holocaust testimony to discussions of ideal and nonideal theor...

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On the impossible demands of morality
1. Verfasser:
Tessman, Lisa
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Zusammenfassung:
Tessman points out a tendency to not acknowledge the difficulties that impossible moral requirements and unavoidable moral failures create in moral life, and traces this tendency through several different literatures, from scholarship on Holocaust testimony to discussions of ideal and nonideal theory, from theories of supererogation to debates about moral demandingness, and to feminist care ethics.
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 281 pages)
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-065091-5
0-19-939615-9
0-19-939616-7
Schlagworte:
Ethics.
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