Human Life, Action and Ethics: Essays

Cover
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Contents
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Title Page
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Publisher Information
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Dedication
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About the Contributors
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Preface
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Introduction
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Analytical Philosophy and the Spirituality of Man
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Has Mankind One Soul: An Angel Distributed Through Many Bodies?
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Human Essence
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Were You a Zygote?
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Embryos and Final Causes
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Knowledge and Reverence for Human Life
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The Dignity of the Human Being
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Chisholm on Action
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The Causation of Action
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Practical Inference
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Practical Truth
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Does Oxford Moral Philosophy Corrupt Youth?
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Modern Moral Philosophy
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Good and Bad Human Action
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Action, Intention and ‘Double Effect’
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The Controversy over a New Morality
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Must One Obey One’s Conscience?
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Glanville Williams’ The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law: A Review
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Who is Wronged? Philippa Foot on Double Effect
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Prolegomenon to a Pursuit of the Definition of Murder: The Illegal and the Unlawful
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Murder and the Morality of Euthanasia
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Commentary on John Harris’ ‘Ethical Problems in the Management of Severely Handicapped Children’
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Sins of Omission? The Non-Treatment of Controls in Clinical Trials
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