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Moral failure : on the impossible demands of morality /

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Tessman points out a tendency to not acknowledge the difficulties that impossible moral requirements and unavoidable moral failures create in moral life, and traces this tendency through several different literatures, from scholarship on Holocaust testimony to discussions of ideal and nonideal theor...

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Main Author: Tessman, Lisa, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Ethics.
Ethics
Morale.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Tessman points out a tendency to not acknowledge the difficulties that impossible moral requirements and unavoidable moral failures create in moral life, and traces this tendency through several different literatures, from scholarship on Holocaust testimony to discussions of ideal and nonideal theory, from theories of supererogation to debates about moral demandingness, and to feminist care ethics.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199396153
0199396159
9780199396160
0199396167