Melissa Moschella
Biographic Data
| ID | 8995610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Moschella |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Moschella |
| SIGNATURE | MOSCHELLA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Catholic University of America |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3380-1798 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Contextualizing, Clarifying, and Defending the Doctrine of Double Effect
In recent years, a number of authors—such as Kershnar and Kelly, Steinhoff, and Scanlon—have criticized the doctrine of double effect (DDE) as incoherent, lacking an underlying rationale, or leading to counterintuitive conclusions. These critiques, however, rest on a failure to understand the DDE’s broader theoretical context and presuppositions. This paper aims to clarify and advance the debate regarding the DDE by, first, outlining a contempora…
Beyond Equal Liberty
In this essay I argue that religion, understood as harmony with the transcendent source of existence and meaning, is a good that practical reason grasps as an objective, distinct, and important aspect of human well-being, one that reasonably takes pride of place among the various aspects of a good human life due to its architectonic role in structuring and adding a transcendent meaning to all of the other goods that we pursue. On the basis of thi…
Natural Law
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Natural Law
Beyond Equal Liberty
In this essay I argue that religion, understood as harmony with the transcendent source of existence and meaning, is a good that practical reason grasps as an objective, distinct, and important aspect of human well-being, one that reasonably takes pride of place among the various aspects of a good human life due to its architectonic role in structuring and adding a transcendent meaning to all of the other goods that we pursue. On the basis of thi…
Contextualizing, Clarifying, and Defending the Doctrine of Double Effect
In recent years, a number of authors—such as Kershnar and Kelly, Steinhoff, and Scanlon—have criticized the doctrine of double effect (DDE) as incoherent, lacking an underlying rationale, or leading to counterintuitive conclusions. These critiques, however, rest on a failure to understand the DDE’s broader theoretical context and presuppositions. This paper aims to clarify and advance the debate regarding the DDE by, first, outlining a contempora…
Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · History (2 works) · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Comparative law (1 work)