Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality by Tessman, Lisa

Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780190650919)

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Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality by Tessman, Lisa

Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality

$56.00
Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality by Tessman, Lisa

Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality

$56.00
Format: Paperback
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Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality asks what happens when the sense that "I must" collides with the realization that "I can't." Bringing together philosophical and empirical work in moral psychology, Lisa Tessman here examines moral requirements that are non-negotiable and that contravene the principle that "ought implies can." In some cases, it is because two non-negotiable requirements conflict that one of them becomes impossible to satisfy, and yet remains binding. In other cases, performing a particular action may be non-negotiably required -- even if it is impossible -- because not performing the action is unthinkable.

Author: Lisa Tessman
ISBN-10: 0190650915
ISBN-13: 9780190650919
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2016
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.66d
By Lisa Tessman
By Lisa Tessman
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Lisa Tessman is Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. Her previous publications have been in ethics, feminist philosophy, and related areas. Her more recent work integrates philosophical ethics with empirical moral psychology. She is the author of Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles.

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