Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Jeffko, Walter G.

Publication

Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books, 2008.

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Details

Description

448 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"This second edition of Contemporary Ethical Issues explores a series of compelling moral problems from a personalistic perspective influenced by the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray (1891-1976). In his many books, articles, and other pamphlets spanning fifty years, most notably his Gifford Lectures titled "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 a loving community where justice and individual rights are respected. Walter G. Jeffko utilizes key elements of Macmurray's thought in developing his own philosophical viewpoint; and he relates Macmurray's ideas to those of a wide variety of important philosophers, ethicists, and other notable thinkers, including ecologists."--Jacket.

Subject

• Ethical problems
• Personalism
• Personalismus
• Angewandte Ethik

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-422) and index.

Contents

Person, reason, and value -- Moral value, intentionality, and community -- Suicide and the right to die -- Abortion, personhood, and community -- Euthanasia : a reinterpretation -- The death penalty and purposes of punishment -- Privacy, private property, and justice -- The personalist society, community, and justice -- The moral treatment of animals -- Affirmative action and justice -- Community and the environmental crisis.

ISBN

• 9781591025702
• 1591025702

LCCN

2007046893

OCLC

• ocn181862670
• 181862670
• SCSB-1480322

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library