
Human Life, Action and Ethics
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- Cover
- Contents
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Publisher Information
- Dedication
- About the Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Human Life
- 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
- Action and Practical Reason
- Chisholm on Action
- The Causation of Action
- Practical Inference
- Practical Truth
- Ethics
- 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
- Back Matter
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