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Moral failure on the impossible demands of morality

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
eBook, English, 2014
Oxford University Press, New York, 2014
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
9780199396160, 9780199396146, 0199396167, 0199396140
1011093237
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