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Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia - A Natural Law Ethics Approach (Paperback, New Ed)
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Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia - A Natural Law Ethics Approach (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Live Questions in Ethics and Moral Philosophy
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As medical technology advances and severely injured or ill people
can be kept alive and functioning long beyond what was previously
medically possible, the debate surrounding the ethics of
end-of-life care and quality-of-life issues has grown more urgent.
In this lucid and vigorous book, Craig Paterson discusses assisted
suicide and euthanasia from a fully fledged but non-dogmatic
secular natural law perspective. He rehabilitates and revitalises
the natural law approach to moral reasoning by developing a
pluralistic account of just why we are required by practical
rationality to respect and not violate key demands generated by the
primary goods of persons, especially human life. Important issues
that shape the moral quality of an action are explained and
analysed: intention/foresight; action/omission;
action/consequences; killing/letting die; innocence/non-innocence;
person/non-person. Paterson defends the central normative
proposition that 'it is always a serious moral wrong to
intentionally kill an innocent human person, whether self or
another, notwithstanding any further appeal to consequences or
motive'.
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