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Matters of life and death

Title
Matters of life and death / Tom L. Beauchamp [and others] ; edited by Tom Regan.
Publication
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1980.

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Additional Authors
  • Beauchamp, Tom L.
  • Regan, Tom.
  • Temple University Press.
Description
xvi, 343 pages; 25 cm
Subject
  • Ethics
  • Social ethics
  • Right to die
  • Ethics
  • Right to Die
  • ethics (philosophy)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Introduction. Meta-ethics ; Normative ethics / Tom Regan -- Euthanasia. An historical perspective ; Arguments supporting the morality of active euthanasia ; Arguments opposing the morality of active euthanasia ; The question of legalization / James Rachels -- Suicide. The definition of suicide ; Principles relevant to discussing the morality of suicide ; Two opposed philosophies of suicide ; Problems of suicide intervention ; / Tom L. Beauchamp -- Violence and war. Morality and violence ; Pacifism ; Violence and the state: war / Jan Narveson -- Capital punishment. The right to life and capital punishment ; The morality of capital punishment ; The indignity and severity of the death penalty ; Capital punishment and social defense ; Capital punishment and retributive justice / Hugo Adam Bedau -- Abortion. The status of the fetus ; The problem of the conflict of claims / Joel Feinberg -- Animals and the value of life. Is human life of unique value? ; The value of a person's life ; Animal life / Peter Singer -- The moral perplexities of famine relief. Some criteria for moral argument ; The facts of famine ; Utilitarian approaches to some famine problems ; Kantian approaches to some famine problems ; Respect for life: a comparison of Kantian and utilitarian views / Onora O'Neill -- The search for an environmental ethic. Value and reality ; Anthropocentrism and morality ; Looking back and ahead / William T. Blackstone.
ISBN
  • 0877221812
  • 9780877221814
LCCN
79003421
OCLC
  • ocm06037122
  • 6037122
  • SCSB-38661
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library