Lesser-evil justifications : a reply to Frowe
Date
04/08/2022Metadata
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Sometimes one can prevent harm only by contravening rights. If the harm one can prevent is great enough, compared to the stringency of the opposing rights, then one has a lesser-evil justification to contravene the rights. Non-consequentialist orthodoxy holds that, most of the time, lesser-evil justifications add to agents’ permissible options without taking any away. Helen Frowe rejects this view. She claims that, almost always, agents must act on their lesser-evil justifications. Our primary task is to refute Frowe’s flagship argument. Secondarily, it is to sketch a positive case for nonconsequentialist orthodoxy.
Citation
Gordon-Solmon , K & Pummer , T G 2022 , ' Lesser-evil justifications : a reply to Frowe ' , Law and Philosophy , vol. First Online . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10982-022-09454-w
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Law and Philosophy
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Peer reviewed
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0167-5249Type
Journal article
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For funding, Kerah Gordon-Solmon is grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.Collections
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