Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0333629809 ISBN 13 : 9780333629802

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 1996

Synopsis

Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics is a collection of original papers by philosophers from Britain, the USA and Australia. The aim of the book is to redress the imbalance in moral philosophy created by the dominance of consequentialism, the view that the criterion of morality is the maximization of good effects over bad, without regard for basic right or wrong. This approach has become the orthodoxy over the last few decades, particularly in the field of bioethics, where moral theory is applied to matters of life and death. The essays in Human Lives critically examine the assumptions and arguments of consequentialism, reviving in the process important concepts such as rights, justice, innocence, natural integrity, flourishing, the virtues, and the fundamental value of human life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0333629809
• ISBN 13: 9780333629802
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Éditeur: Laing Jacqueline A., Oderberg David S.
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