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Human life, action, and ethics : essays /

A collection of essays by the celebrated philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. This collection includes papers on human nature and practical philosophy, together with the classic 'Modern Moral Philosophy' ...

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Anscombe, G. E. M. (Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret)
Otros Autores: Geach, Mary, Gormally, Luke
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Exeter ; Charlottesville, VA : Imprint Academic, ©2005.
Colección:St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.