Human Lives : Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics

Laing, Jacqueline A. (EDT); Oderberg, David S. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0333629809 / ISBN 13: 9780333629802

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 1996

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3370965-n

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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.

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Titel: Human Lives : Critical Essays on ...
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: New