The doctrine of double effect in ethics education

Mikhail Gennadyevich Khort; Artur Ravilevich Karimov; Alexey Alexeyevich Sinyavskiy

doi:10.22633/rpge.v25iesp.6.16112

Authors

Mikhail Gennadyevich Khort Kazan Federal University, Kazan – Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4284-6533
Artur Ravilevich Karimov Kazan Federal University, Kazan – Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9245-2933
Alexey Alexeyevich Sinyavskiy Kazan Federal University, Kazan – Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0346-7047

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22633/rpge.v25iesp.6.16112

Keywords:

The double effect, Normative ethics, Ethics education, Consequentialism, International law

Abstract

Ethics education is a vast term for learning experiences aimed to assist students in developing ethically, whether in terms of increased ethical awareness and understanding or greater motivation to act ethically in the world. The article discusses the doctrine of double effect in the context of ethical education between deontology and consequentialism. The authors note that it is impossible to agree the doctrine of double effect with contrarian normative positions. In the first part of the article, authors argue in favor of the doctrine of the double effect as an independent ethical principle. In the second part of the article, authors consider the doctrine of double effect by using the example of an armed conflict situation in the terms of international humanitarian law. The main thesis of the article is that the doctrine of double effect should be considered as a universal presupposition of both ethical and educational regulation.

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Author Biographies

Mikhail Gennadyevich Khort, Kazan Federal University, Kazan – Russia

Graduate student, Institute of Social and Philosophical Sciences and Mass Communications.

Artur Ravilevich Karimov, Kazan Federal University, Kazan – Russia

Doctor of philosophy, Head of the department of Social Philosophy, Institute of Social and Philosophical Sciences and Mass Communications.

Alexey Alexeyevich Sinyavskiy, Kazan Federal University, Kazan – Russia

LL. M. in International Human Rights Law, Department of International and European law, Faculty of Law.

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