Research Catalog

Title

Contemporary ethical issues : a personalistic perspective / Walter G. Jeffko.

Author

Jeffko, Walter G.

Publication

Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books, 1999.

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Details

Description

x, 269 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Contemporary Ethical Issues explores a series of contemporary moral-problems from a personalistic perspective influenced by the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray (1891-1976). In many books, articles, and pamphlets spanning fifty years, most notably his Gifford Lectures, "The Form of the Personal," Macmurray developed a robust personalism that emphasizes the primacy of persons as rational agents whose self-realization is achieved in community. Walter G. Jeffko utilizes key elements of Macmurray's thought in developing his own viewpoint, and he relates Macmurray's ideas to those of a wide variety of important philosophers, ethicists, and behavioral scientists."--Jacket.

Subject

• Macmurray, John, 1891-1976
• Macmurray, John, 1891-1976
• Ethical problems
• Personalism
• Ethik
• Personalismus
• Ethiek
• Personalisme

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-253) and index.

Contents

Person, Reason, and Community -- A Crisis of Values -- Person as Relational Agent -- Person as Rational Agent -- Instrumental and Aesthetic Value -- Moral Value -- Suicide and the Right to Die -- Arguments Against Suicide -- Arguments for Suicide -- Community, Justice, and Suicide -- Abortion, Personhood, and Community -- Ontology of the Fetus -- Moral Implications -- Abortion and the Law -- Euthanasia: A Reinterpretation -- Conventional Types of Euthanasia -- Direct and Indirect Euthanasia -- The Death Penalty and Purposes of Punishment -- Punishment in General -- The Death Penalty -- Privacy, Private Property, and Justice -- Personhood and Privacy -- Privacy and Society -- The Moral Treatment of Animals -- Western Civilization and Animals -- Personalism and Animals -- Affirmative Action and Justice -- Discrimination and Prejudice -- Affirmative Action and the Law: A History -- An Ethics of Affirmative Action.

ISBN

• 1573926418
• 9781573926416
• 157392640X
• 9781573926409

LCCN

99024180

OCLC

• ocm41039868
• 41039868
• SCSB-764272

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library