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Author: Hugo Adam Bedau Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195108779 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 136
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This text examines the usefulness of "casuistry", or "the method of cases" in arriving at moral decisions. It seeks to teach something about how we actually reason concerning life and death situations, and how we ought to reason if we wish both to be consistent and properly respect human life.
Author: Hugo Adam Bedau Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195108779 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 136
Book Description
This text examines the usefulness of "casuistry", or "the method of cases" in arriving at moral decisions. It seeks to teach something about how we actually reason concerning life and death situations, and how we ought to reason if we wish both to be consistent and properly respect human life.
Author: Hugo Adam Bedau Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198026846 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 138
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The answer, to crew and passengers aboard the sinking lifeboat, must have seemed both grimly obvious and unthinkably alien. To save the lives of many, the lives of some would have to be sacrificed. With seawater crashing over the gunwhales, only a lightening of the human cargo would keep the craft afloat. In a procedure that took much of the night, fourteen men and two women were consigned to watery graves. This notorious event, aftermath to the sinking of the William Brown in 1841, represents a shocking example of life and death decision-making, a case where cruel circumstance would seem to argue the permissibility of taking innocent human life. In Making Mortal Choices, philosopher Hugo Bedau examines this case as well as two similar cases of hypothetical origin, generating a remarkably clear and accessible demonstration of philosophical reasoning in cases where it must be decided who ought to survive when not all can. Bedau's approach, a form of practical ethics descended from the ancient (and oft-misunderstood) method of casuistry, involves solving complex moral problems in careful analytic increments and only after a broad canvassing of possibilities, rather than through the top-down application of some general moral theory or principle. Aimed at both general readers and philosophers interested in the revival of casuistic method, Making Mortal Choices illuminates not only how we reason in life and death situations, but also how we ought to reason if we wish both to be consistent and to properly respect human life.
Author: Hugo Adam Bedau Publisher: ISBN: 9780199852888 Category : Casuistry Languages : en Pages : 123
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Bedau demonstrates the usefulness of 'casuistry' or 'the method of cases' in arriving at moral decisions. He examines well-known cases that compel us to consider questions about who ought to survive when not all can, and shows how we ought to reason.
Author: Graham Spencer Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1441140646 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 297
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"The first study of its kind to link Irish republican identity through the influences of Catholicism, the paramilitary campaign and political transformation"--
Author: Louis Blom-Cooper Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1782257292 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 376
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Over the years of the developing judicial review of ministerial and governmental decisions, Louis Blom-Cooper was a leading advocate who grew up with the advent of a distinctive brand of public law. His range of public activities, both in and outwith the courtroom, saw him dubbed by his colleagues as a polymath practitioner.It included chairmanship of plural public inquiries in child abuse and mental health, media contributions in the broadsheet press and in broadcasting, and innovation in penal reform, as an ardent campaigner for the abolition of capital punishment and a plea for a modern Homicide Act. He styled himself as a modern, reconstructed liberal – a man before his time. This collection of essays is uniquely prefaced by a self-examination of his unorthodox philosophy towards the law in action. It covers a variety of socio-legal topics that expresses his ambition to inform a poorly-educated public on the workings of the legal system. This aim involves a discussion of the constitutional history of Britain, unwritten and insufficiently interpreted; it reflects a commitment to the European Convention on Human Rights and portrays its international origins. The collection opines on crime and punishment; in the functioning of the courts and elsewhere the political shift from the penal optimism of the 1970s to the reactionary punitiveness of the post-1990s. The essays conclude with a miscellany of affairs, reflecting on professional practices and their product of judicial heroes in Lord Reid and Lord Bingham.
Author: Lawrence C. Becker Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135351031 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 4672
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The editors, working with a team of 325 renowned authorities in the field of ethics, have revised, expanded and updated this classic encyclopedia. Along with the addition of 150 new entries, all of the original articles have been newly peer-reviewed and revised, bibliographies have been updated throughout, and the overall design of the work has been enhanced for easier access to cross-references and other reference features. New entries include * Cheating * Dirty hands * Gay ethics * Holocaust * Journalism * Political correctness * and many more.
Author: J. P. Vaswani Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 1529025672 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 100
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Do you realize that you make 600 to 3,000 choices in a day? From the moment you wake up to the time you go back to sleep, you are always making a choice! So you have the choice to choose well for yourself. Make the Right Choice is one of Reverend Dada J. P. Vaswani’s many practical guides to a happy and contented life. It is based on one of his inspiring talks he delivered on his ninety-ninth birthday at the Sadhu Vaswani Mission Centre, which makes this book special. It is also one of the last few books that Dada Vaswani had written before his sudden demise on 12 July 2018. A modern, practical and insightful read, Make the Right Choice is the author’s personal guide to managing our choices in life. Giving seven positive affirmations to follow, Dada Vaswani inspires us to be intuitive, courageous, kind and forgiving. Once we start showing strong affection towards ourselves, we are then no longer clouded with wrong choices. The path becomes clearer. ‘You can choose to be what you wish to be!’
Author: Lewis B. Smedes Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 136
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A long-needed book of guidelines on making solid choices that go beyond the needs of the moment to an underlying, consistent pattern of moral values, written in the warm and witty style of the bestselling author of Forgive and Forget.
Author: F. Rosen Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 0415220947 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 300
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This book presents a new interpretation of the principle of utility in moral and political theory based on the writings of the classical utilitarians. The writings of Adam Smith, William Paley and Jeremy Bentham are also considered.
Author: Hugo Adam Bedau
Author: Hugo Adam Bedau
Author: Hugo Adam Bedau
Author: Hugo Adam Bedau
Author: Ruth Macklin
Author: Graham Spencer
Author: Louis Blom-Cooper
Author: Lawrence C. Becker
Author: J. P. Vaswani
Author: Lewis B. Smedes
Author: F. Rosen