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The Act Itself

Jonathan Bennett

Print publication date: 1998

Print ISBN-13: 9780198237914

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003

DOI: 10.1093/019823791X.001.0001

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Intentions

Intentions

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(p.194) 11 Intentions
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The Act Itself
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Jonathan Bennett

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/019823791X.003.0011

This chapter analyses and criticizes the view, contained in the ‘doctrine of double effect’, that it is worse to act intending to produce a bad result than to act merely foreseeing that your action will produce a bad result. The analysis makes use of the decision in Ch. 2 to proceed in terms of facts about behaviour rather than acts, and gains strength from that chapter's analysis of the ‘by’‐locution.

Keywords:   action, double effect, foresight, intention

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