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Recent conflicts, such as the Persian Gulf War of the 1990s and the
war against the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001 show that the idea
of what constitutes a 'just war' remains a crucial issue in
politics and ethics today. With a new foreword by noted theologian
and ethicist Stanley Hauerwas, this classic text on war and the
ethics of modern statecraft written at the height of the Vietnam
era in 1968 speaks to a new generation of readers. In defending
just war against Christian pacifism and arguing against those who
maintain that the end justifies the means in the conduct of a war,
Ramsey joins a line of theological reasoning that traces its
antecedents to Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas. Ramsey
argues that decisions regarding war must be governed by 'political
prudence.' Whether a particular war should be fought, and at what
level of violence, depends, Ramsey writes, on one's count of the
moral costs and benefits. Characterized by a sophisticated yet
back-to-basics approach, his analysis begins with the assumption
that force is a fact in political life which must either be
reckoned with or succumbed to. He then grapples with modern
challenges to traditional moral principles of 'just conduct' in
war, the 'morality of deterrence, ' and a 'just war theory of
statecraft.
The study of religion, traditionally sponsored by sectarian
institutions, has within recent decades come to claim an
increasingly larger share of attention in colleges and universities
generally, and in the process the constituent intellectual
disciplines have undergone significant changes. In this volume,
twelve distinguished scholars take stock of the current state of
the field and explore the prospects for future development. The
areas covered in the essays (with their authors) are biblical
studies (Stendhal), Western religious history (Clebsch), philosophy
of religion (Diamond), theology (McGill), Catholic studies
(Preller), Jewish studies (Neusner), sociology of religion
(Harrison), comparative religious ethics (Little), history of
religions (Sullivan), religion and art (Turner), and religion and
literature (Driver). A "practical commentary" on the current state
of the field (Gustafson) concludes the volume. Taken together, the
essays provide an overview of the subject matter of religion study
that should enable scholars of religion to situate and define their
own work while helping others to appreciate the claims that work
has upon the resources and concerns of colleges and universities.
Originally published in 1970. 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.
The study of religion, traditionally sponsored by sectarian
institutions, has within recent decades come to claim an
increasingly larger share of attention in colleges and universities
generally, and in the process the constituent intellectual
disciplines have undergone significant changes. In this volume,
twelve distinguished scholars take stock of the current state of
the field and explore the prospects for future development. The
areas covered in the essays (with their authors) are biblical
studies (Stendhal), Western religious history (Clebsch), philosophy
of religion (Diamond), theology (McGill), Catholic studies
(Preller), Jewish studies (Neusner), sociology of religion
(Harrison), comparative religious ethics (Little), history of
religions (Sullivan), religion and art (Turner), and religion and
literature (Driver). A "practical commentary" on the current state
of the field (Gustafson) concludes the volume. Taken together, the
essays provide an overview of the subject matter of religion study
that should enable scholars of religion to situate and define their
own work while helping others to appreciate the claims that work
has upon the resources and concerns of colleges and universities.
Originally published in 1970. 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.
General editor: v. 3-6, John E. Smith; v. 7 edited by Norman
Pettit; v. 8 edited by Paul Ramsey; v. 9 transcribed and edited by
John F. Wilson; v. 10 edited by Wilson H. Kimnach; v. 13 edited by
Thomas A. Schafer; v. 15 edited by Stephen J. Stein; v. 18 edited
by Ava Chamberlain; v. 19. Harry S. Stout, general editor; v. 20
edited by Amy Plantinga Pauw; v. 22 edited by Harry S. Stout and
Nathan O. Hatch with Kyle P. Farley; v. 24, pt. 2 edited by Harry
S. Stout
1m Manual der Herzchirurgie haben wir versucht, den Ablauf von
Herzope- rationen so detailliert wie moglich darzustellen,
angefangen bei den grundle- genden chirurgischen Techniken -einem
wichtigen, jedoch oft vernachHissig- ten Thema - bis zur
sorgfaltigen Beschreibung aller wesentlichen Schritte einer
Operation. Das wichtigste Medium zur Vermittlung dieser Informatio-
nen sind farbige Illustrationen. Diese Illustrationen sind mit
Hilfe von Farb-, Graphit- und Kohlestiften sowie Pastell-, Lasur-
und Deckfarben hergestellt worden, wodurch das Operationsfeld mit
der groBtmoglichen Wirklichkeits-und Dimensionstreue dargestellt
und die Aufmerksamkeit auf das Wesentliche und weg vom
Unwesentlichen gelenkt wird. Grundlage dieser Illustrationen waren
Beob- achtungen wahrend der Operation, unterstiitzt von Photos und
frisch ent- nommenen Gewebeproben. Ziel war es, nicht nur die
Hauptelemente der Operationen aufzuzeigen, sondern auch ihre
subtilsten Einzelheiten. Wir haben nicht alle moglichen
Operationsmethoden gezeigt. Die Auswahl der Techniken ist in
gewissem Sinne willkiirlich; es sind jedoch diejenigen, die wahrend
einer 20jahrigen klinischen Praxis an der Oregon Health Scien- ces
University entwickelt wurden. Diese Techniken haben sich bei uns
uns gu t bewahrt. Wir hoffen, daB dieses Buch bei allen, die mit
der chirurgischen Behandlung von Herzpatienten betraut sind, regen
Anklang finden wird. Wenn es zu einer Erweiterung des Wissens und
einer Vertiefung des Verstandnisses fUr die Herzchirurgie fUhrt und
damit zu einer verbesserten Betreuung der Patienten beitragt, hat
es seinen Hauptzweck erfUllt. BRADLEY J. HARLAN, M.D. ALBERT STARR,
M.D. FREDRIC M. HARWIN Inhaltsverzeichnis Kapitell Vorbereitung zur
Operation 1 Routinevorbereitung . . . . Anordnungen bei der
stationaren Aufnahme 1 I Infektprophylaxe . . .
University Of Alabama Studies, Number 15.
University Of Alabama Studies, Number 15.
The death of God began, according to Vahanian, the moment Western
man started to compromise with the Biblical concept of God
transcendent, and to merge the identity of the Godhead with the
identity of humankind. From this compromise evolved the belief in
the possibility of heaven on earth, in human perfectibility, in the
expectation that man, both individually and collectively, can
control his termporal fate. Today, as a consequence, Western
society not only exalts all possible material comforts, but
requires as well easy, guaranteed, status-assuring religious
affiliations. The present search for "inner security" is in direct
opposition to the toleration of doubt that tests the strength of
genuine religious faith. And Vahanian shows how our spiritual
decline is reflected in much of the most important imaginative
writing of today.
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A comprehensive work in the field of Christian ethics, Basic
Christian Ethics remains, more than fifty years after its original
publication, an engaging and important work. The Library of
Theological Ethics series focuses on what it means to think
theologically and ethically. It presents a selection of important
and otherwise unavailable texts in easily accessible form. Volumes
in this series will enable sustained dialogue with predecessors
though reflection on classic works in the field.
As physicians are faced with new and wonderful options for saving
lives, transplanting organs, and furthering research, they also
must wrestle with new and troubling choices-who should receive
scarce and vital treatment, how we determine when life ends, what
limits should be placed on care for the dying, and more. This book
by renowned theologian Paul Ramsey, first published thirty years
ago, anticipated these moral and ethical issues and addressed them
with cogency and power, providing the intellectual foundations for
the field of bioethics. This second edition of Ramsey's classic
work includes a new foreword by Margaret Farley and essays by
Albert R. Jonsen and William F. May that help to locate and
interpret Ramsey historically and intellectually. Praise for the
earlier edition: "For its strong, well-argued positions, its
documentation and references, and its assistance in bringing
confused strands of thought into focus, The Patient as Person
willbe used for many years."-Michael Novak, New York Times "Amid
the plethora of books on medical ethics that merely skim the
surface, this one solidly examines most aspects of the
question--from the definition of death to organ
transplantation."-Christianity Today "Notable for its clear moral
reasoning and its thorough examination of all morally relevant
issues."-Journal of Religion "[Ramsey's] study is a masterpiece of
thoroughness in evaluating conflicting moral claims which become
explicit in crucial medical situations."-Dolores Dooley-Clarke,
Philosophical Studies
Paul Ramsey was one of the most important ethicists of the
twentieth century. From the publication of his classic Basic
Christian Ethics in 1950 until his death in 1988, his writings
decisively shaped moral discourse and reflection in the areas of
theology, law, politics, and medicine. This collection of Ramsey's
most important essays on Christian, political, and medical ethics
displays the scope and depth of his vision, highlighting both the
character of his theological commitments and the continuing
significance of his work for the pressing moral problems of our
day. Selections deal with such issues as race relations, sexuality
and marriage, war, the meaning of Christian love, abortion, and
medical care for the sick and dying. A general introduction by
William Werpehowski and Stephen D. Crocco evaluates Ramsey's career
and accomplishments and reviews contemporary criticism of his
output and legacy. Shorter introductions to each selection point
out crucial themes and lines of development in Ramsey's thought.
The tremendous changes in society's attitudes toward abortion,
euthanasia, the right to die, and other related life-and-death
issues are reflected in recent court decisions and in new
legislation. This important book by one of America's leading
writers in the field of medical ethics analyzes these legal issues
at the ethical level, showing how our laws and practices affect and
reflect the morality of our times. Ramsey is concerned with
medicine, ethics, law, and with medical and public policy. He
examines relevant laws and court decisions that make policy, but
not without a healthy measure of moral argument and critical
assessment. Among the recent legal issues that he analyzes in
detail are the decision of the Supreme Court of New Jersey in the
Quinlan case; the rights of defective newborn infants; the Edelin
negligent manslaughter case; the "conscience clauses" in our
federal code and in state statutes; the Supreme Court's landmark
decision on abortion in Planned Parenthood v. Danforth; and
California's Natural Death Act. Ramsey studies the reasoning behind
the court's decision or the law and holds up these legal processes
as mirrors in which we can see reflected the state of moral
questions as they are perceived by contemporary society. A
perceptive and well-informed social critic, he provides an ethical
assessment of the discourse going on concerning issues of medical
practice and public policy. "What [Ramsey] has to say must be of
compelling interest to everyone concerned with the moral problems
of medicine, life and death and not merely to those who share his
faith. This is . . . probably the single most important text in the
area of medical ethics written in modern times. . . . It is a book
that cannot itself be summarized; it has to be read."-Alasdair
MacIntyre, The New Republic "Ramsey's arguments . . . reflect great
moral passion as well as his usual rigorous analysis."-James F.
Childress, Religious Studies Review "Ramsey forces one to think
deeply and systematically about issues that cannot be reduced to
maxims or formulas. His work serves both as a challenge and as an
inspiration."-New England Journal of Medicine "A monumental feat.
Ramsey is neither a physician nor a lawyer, but I venture to say
that he has much to offer members of each profession - and a great
deal to offer the average reader. His analysis of the legal issues
at the 'edges of life' and his critical assessment of the relevant
court decisions are brimful, probing and provocative. A meaty book,
beautifully written."-Yale Kamisar Ethics at the Edges of Life was
selected as an outstanding book for 1979 in the Scholarly Books
category of the National Religious Book Awards.
"So here we have an entity too alive to be dead, not mature enough
to be a viable baby, yet human enough to be specially protectable."
-- Paul Ramsey A storm has been brewing over legal and ethical
questions raised by experimentation on still-living human fetuses.
The discussion is complicated by its connection with the issue of
abortion: in recent debates, fetal research has become fetal
politics. The Ethics of Fetal Research distinguishes between these
two questions. Paul Ramsey first outlines the various types of
fetal research now being done and grants their potential benefits.
He then describes the development of proposed American guidelines
up to the National Research Act, passed by Congress in 1974. He
compares these guidelines with England's recent "Peel Report." In
considering the moral and ethical problems involved in fetal
research, he deals with ways in which medical policy is formulated
in the United States. This important continuation of Paul Ramsey's
contribution to medical ethics does not tell the reader what to
think about experimentation on fetuses, but how to think about his
new form of human research.
"Because those who come after us may not be like us, or because
those like us may not come after us, or because after a time there
may be none to come after us, mankind must now set to work to
insure that those who come after us will be more unlike us. In this
there is at work the modern intellect's penchant for species
suicide." With these words Paul Ramsey brings to a conclusion his
provocative and surprising study of the problems we are
encountering - and will encounter - as scientific advances make the
genetic control of man a real possibility. Now, increased knowledge
of chromosome structure has taken the alteration of the human race
out of the realm of science fiction and placed it in the hands of
laboratory scientists. Ramsey sees this advance in science and
technology as a mixed blessing. He examines the ramifications of
genetic control, not only the now common measures of birth control
and artificial insemination, but also the effect on the genetic
pool of the increasing numbers of genetically poor individuals. His
concern for humanistic values informs each argument as he tackles
such issues as asexual reproduction of men, frozen semen banks, and
the breeding of human beings for special purposes. No less than the
future of man as we know him hangs on these issues. One must pay
particular attention to this book.
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