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This book brings together the most important articles of the late
Joseph F. Fletcher (1934-84), a scholar widely acclaimed for the
breadth and brilliance of his historical thought and for his almost
unequalled linguistic competence. Fletcher's mastery of the major
languages and historical traditions of East Asia, the Middle East
and Europe gave him a unique ability to trace historical movements
across the cultural boundaries of Eurasia. The articles in this
collection summarize his researches on the relation of China to its
neighbours, the history of nomad society, and the interconnections
among the great empires of the early modern age. Fletcher's highly
important research into the Islamic revival movements of China and
Inner Asia is collected here for the first time, including his most
complete, but previously unpublished study of the subject, The
Naqshbandiyya in Northwest China .
In Morals and Medicine a leading Protestant theologian comes to
grips with the problems of conscience raised by new advances in
medical science and technology. They arise as issues at the start
or making of a life, in preserving its health, and in facing its
death. They are the problems of Everyman: some are new problems of
conscience, such as artificial insemination; some are old problems
in new dimensions, such as euthanasia. Modern medicine provides
such a high degree of control over health and vital processes that
men must inevitably shoulder the burden of intelligent decision,
and shoulder it as rationally as possible. Thus far, only Roman
Catholic moralists have worked out a coherent ethics of medical
care. Morals and Medicine is a new and independent analysis of the
morals of life and death, striking out along the line of the values
of personality rather than of mere physiological life itself. It
offers a modern and at the same time Christian concept of right and
wrong for all who are involved: the patient, the doctor and nurse,
the pastor, and the family and friends. Originally published in
1954. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
In Morals and Medicine a leading Protestant theologian comes to
grips with the problems of conscience raised by new advances in
medical science and technology. They arise as issues at the start
or making of a life, in preserving its health, and in facing its
death. They are the problems of Everyman: some are new problems of
conscience, such as artificial insemination; some are old problems
in new dimensions, such as euthanasia. Modern medicine provides
such a high degree of control over health and vital processes that
men must inevitably shoulder the burden of intelligent decision,
and shoulder it as rationally as possible. Thus far, only Roman
Catholic moralists have worked out a coherent ethics of medical
care. Morals and Medicine is a new and independent analysis of the
morals of life and death, striking out along the line of the values
of personality rather than of mere physiological life itself. It
offers a modern and at the same time Christian concept of right and
wrong for all who are involved: the patient, the doctor and nurse,
the pastor, and the family and friends. Originally published in
1954. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
Why do citizens in pluralist democracies disagree collectively
about the very values they agree on individually? This provocative
book highlights the inescapable conflicts of rights and values at
the heart of democratic politics. Based on interviews with
thousands of citizens and political decision makers, the book
focuses on modern Canadian politics, investigating why a country so
fortunate in its history and circumstances is on the brink of
dissolution. Taking advantage of new techniques of
computer-assisted interviewing, the authors explore the politics of
a wide array of issues, from freedom of expression to public
funding of religious schools to government wiretapping to antihate
legislation, analyzing not only why citizens take the positions
they do but also how easily they can be talked out of them. In the
process, the authors challenge a number of commonly held
assumptions about democratic politics. They show, for example, that
political elites do not constitute a special bulwark protecting
civil liberties; that arguments over political rights are as deeply
driven by commitment to the master values of democratic politics as
by failure to understand them; and that consensus on the rights of
groups is inherently more fragile than on the rights of
individuals.
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