Human life, action and ethics [electronic resource] : essays / by G.E.M. Anscombe ; edited by Mary Geach and Luke Gormally.

By: Anscombe, G. E. M. (Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret)Contributor(s): Geach, Mary | Gormally, Luke | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairsPublication details: Exeter, U.K. ; Charlottesville, Va. : Imprint Academic, c2005Description: 1 v. (unpaged)ISBN: 9781845402709 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): EthicsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 170 LOC classification: BJ1011 | .A57 2005Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Analytical philosophy and the spirituality of man -- Has mankind one soul : an angel distributed through many bodies? -- Human essence -- Were you a zygote? -- Embryos and final causes -- Knowledge and reverence for human life -- The dignity of the human being -- Chisholm on action -- The causation of action -- Practical inference -- Practical truth -- Does Oxford moral philosophy corrupt youth? -- Modern moral philosophy -- Good and bad human action -- Action, intention and 'double effect' -- The controversy over a new morality -- Must one obey one's conscience? -- Glanville Williams' The sanctity of life and the criminal law : a review -- Who is wronged? : Philippa Foot on double effect -- Prolegomenon to a pursuit of the definition of murder : the illegal and the unlawful -- Murder and the morality of euthanasia -- Commentary on John Harris' 'Ethical problems in the management of severely handicapped children' -- Sins of omission? -- The non-treatment of controls in clinical trials.
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Analytical philosophy and the spirituality of man -- Has mankind one soul : an angel distributed through many bodies? -- Human essence -- Were you a zygote? -- Embryos and final causes -- Knowledge and reverence for human life -- The dignity of the human being -- Chisholm on action -- The causation of action -- Practical inference -- Practical truth -- Does Oxford moral philosophy corrupt youth? -- Modern moral philosophy -- Good and bad human action -- Action, intention and 'double effect' -- The controversy over a new morality -- Must one obey one's conscience? -- Glanville Williams' The sanctity of life and the criminal law : a review -- Who is wronged? : Philippa Foot on double effect -- Prolegomenon to a pursuit of the definition of murder : the illegal and the unlawful -- Murder and the morality of euthanasia -- Commentary on John Harris' 'Ethical problems in the management of severely handicapped children' -- Sins of omission? -- The non-treatment of controls in clinical trials.

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