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Christian Bioethics Advance Access originally published online on November 14, 2008
Christian Bioethics 2008 14(3):272-282; doi:10.1093/cb/cbn019
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This article appears in the following Christian Bioethics issue: Richard McCormick's Moral Epistemology and Bioethics: A Symposium [View the issue table of contents]

Intending Damage to Basic Goods

Christopher Tollefsen

University of South Carolina

Address correspondence to: Christopher Tollefsen, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA. E-mail: Christopher.Tollefsen{at}gmail.com


  Abstract

Richard McCormick justified his move to proportionalism in part because of the perceived inadequacy of the Grisez-Finnis approach to morality to answer the following question: "What is to count for turning against a basic good, and why?" In this paper, I provide the beginnings of an account of what it means to intend damage to a good; I then show that the account is readily exportable to judgments regarding killing and lying defended by Grisez and others. I then indicate that the account comports well with some of what Grisez says about sexual morality and suggest areas in which further clarification is necessary. In thus proceeding, I hope to inoculate the Grisez view from McCormick's reservations.

Keywords: basic goods, double effect, Germain Grisez, Richard McCormick


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