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Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics is a
collection of original papers by philosophers from Britain, the USA
and Australia. The aim of the book is to redress the imbalance in
moral philosophy created by the dominance of consequentialism, the
view that the criterion of morality is the maximization of good
effects over bad, without regard for basic right or wrong. This
approach has become the orthodoxy over the last few decades,
particularly in the field of bioethics, where moral theory is
applied to matters of life and death. The essays in Human Lives
critically examine the assumptions and arguments of
consequentialism, reviving in the process important concepts such
as rights, justice, innocence, natural integrity, flourishing, the
virtues, and the fundamental value of human life.
Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics is a
collection of original papers by philosophers from Britain, the USA
and Australia. The aim of the book is to redress the imbalance in
moral philosophy created by the dominance of consequentialism, the
view that the criterion of morality is the maximization of good
effects over bad, without regard for basic right or wrong. This
approach has become the orthodoxy over the last few decades,
particularly in the field of bioethics, where moral theory is
applied to matters of life and death. The essays in Human Lives
critically examine the assumptions and arguments of
consequentialism, reviving in the process important concepts such
as rights, justice, innocence, natural integrity, flourishing, the
virtues, and the fundamental value of human life.
The Natural Law Reader features a selection of readings in
metaphysics, jurisprudence, politics, and ethics that are all
related to the classical Natural Law tradition in the modern world.
* Features a concise presentation of the natural law position that
offers the reader a focal point for discussion of ancient and
contemporary ideas in the natural law tradition * Draws upon the
metaphysical and ethical categories put forth and developed by
Aristotle and Aquinas * Points to the historical significance and
contemporary relevance of the Natural Law tradition * Reflects on a
revival of interest in the tradition of virtue ethics and human
rights
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