The Doctrine of Double Effect and Medical Ethics: A New Formulation

• Authors: Rahman Sharifzadeh

Abstracts

EN

The standard version of the doctrine of double effect, a significant doctrine in applied ethics particularly medical ethics, not only fails to capture some morally significant components of Aquinas’ view, but it does not resort to proper complementary features in order to accommodate the doctrine to our moral intuitions. We attempt to offer a new formulation of the doctrine incorporating the main components of Aquinas’ view and also to extend the view using some complementary features. We will examine the strength of the formulation applying it into some ethically controversial situations, mainly in medical ethics.

Keywords

EN

Doctrine of Double Effect; medical ethics; intention; foresight; Thomas Aquinas

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Ethics in Progress
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 42-56

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Rahman Sharifzadeh

• Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology IRANDOC, Tehran

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/eip.2022.2.4

Biblioteka Nauki

29433315