Dirty Hands and Moral Conflict – Lessons from the Philosophy of Evil.
According to one understanding of the problem of dirty hands, every case of dirty hands is an instance of moral conflict, but not every instance of moral conflict is a case of dirty hands. So, what sets the two apart? The dirty hands literature has offered widely different answers to this question b...
| Publicado en: | Philosophia Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 183 - 201 |
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