Double-Effect Reasoning: From Jean Pierre Gury to Peter Knauer

Authors

Christopher Kaczor, Loyola Marymount UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1998

Abstract

The author argues in favor of the thesis proposed by Peter Knauer and others that double-effect reasoning, or the principle of double effect, changes in character from Aquinas's initial formulation in his treatment of self-defense to the articulations offered by various manualists. However, Knauer and others fail to recognize that proportionalism is better understood as an extension of neo-Scholastic Jesuit manuals than as a recovery of Aquinas.

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Original Publication Citation

Kaczor, Christopher. “Double-Effect Reasoning from Jean Pierre Gury to Peter Knauer.” Theological Studies, vol. 59, no. 2, May 1998, pp. 297–316. https://doi.org/10.1177/004056399805900206.

Digital Commons @ LMU & LLS Citation

Kaczor, Christopher, "Double-Effect Reasoning: From Jean Pierre Gury to Peter Knauer" (1998). Philosophy Faculty Works. 219.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/phil_fac/219