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- catalog contributor b11689939.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description "1 Abortion 1 -- 1.1 Problem of Abortion Today 1 -- 1.2 Basic Argument and Some Responses 3 -- 1.3 Sentience: A Bad Argument Against Abortion 6 -- 1.4 A Return to the Basic Argument 8 -- 1.4.1 Objection from brain activity 10 -- 1.4.2 Objection from sorites paradoxes 12 -- 1.4.3 Objection from begging the question 14 -- 1.4.4 Objection from sperm and egg 14 -- 1.4.5 Objection from fission and totipotency 16 -- 1.4.6 Objection from cloning and parthenogenesis 19 -- 1.5 A Feminist Argument for Abortion 22 -- 1.6 Foetus, the Person and the Person 31 -- 1.7 Abortion, the Law and the Public Good -- A Concluding Note 41 -- 1.7.1 'I personally disapprove of abortion but would not impose my opinion on other people' 41 -- 1.7.2 'It is not the business of the law to interfere with such a difficult decision' 44 -- 1.7.3 'Backstreet' objection 45 -- 2 Euthanasia 48 -- 2.2".
- catalog description "Capital Punishment -- The Argument 156 -- 4.4 Objections 162 -- 4.4.1 What if an innocent person is executed? 162 -- 4.4.2 Capital punishment is irreversible 164 -- 4.4.3 Capital punishment is not a deterrent 165 -- 4.4.4 Capital punishment is just state-sanctioned murder 168 -- 4.4.5 Capital punishment is cruel and inhuman 169 -- 4.4.6 What about mercy and compassion? 169 -- 4.4.7 Capital punishment fails to respect persons 171 -- 4.5 Concluding Remarks on Hypocrisy 178 -- 5 War 182 -- 5.1 Some Questions 182 -- 5.2 War, Pacifism and Self-Defence 185 -- 5.2.1 Self-defence -- basic principles 191 -- 5.3 Going to War 198 -- 5.3.1 Basic principles of the just war 201 -- 5.3.2 Just cause 205 -- 5.3.3 Questions about the justice of the cause 211 -- 5.4 Conduct During War 215 -- 5.5 Globalism 224.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Varieties of Euthanasia 50 -- 2.3 Voluntary Euthanasia and Autonomy 54 -- 2.4 Non-Voluntary Euthanasia and 'Quality of Life 60 -- 2.5 Active and Passive Euthanasia 71 -- 2.6 Ordinary and Extraordinary Means 80 -- 2.7 Euthanasia, Death and 'Brain Death' 85 -- 2.8 Euthanasia and Nazism 94 -- 3 Animals 97 -- 3.1 Problem 97 -- 3.2 Conditions for Rights -- What They Are Not 98 -- 3.2.1 Consciousness 99 -- 3.2.2 Beliefs and desires 105 -- 3.2.3 Language 109 -- 3.2.4 Self-consciousness 114 -- 3.2.5 Action in pursuit of desires and goals 117 -- 3.3 Conditions for Rights -- What They Are 121 -- 3.3.1 Knowledge of purpose 122 -- 3.3.2 Free will 127 -- 3.4 Two Dilemmas for the View that Animals Have Rights 136 -- 3.5 So How Should We Treat Animals? 138 -- 4 Capital Punishment 144 -- 4.1 A Conflict? 144 -- 4.2 Punishment -- General Principles 146 -- 4.3".
- catalog extent "xiv, 248 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0631219048 (hb : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0631219056 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers,".
- catalog subject "170 21".
- catalog subject "Applied ethics.".
- catalog subject "BJ1031 .O34 2000".
- catalog subject "Ethical problems.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1 Abortion 1 -- 1.1 Problem of Abortion Today 1 -- 1.2 Basic Argument and Some Responses 3 -- 1.3 Sentience: A Bad Argument Against Abortion 6 -- 1.4 A Return to the Basic Argument 8 -- 1.4.1 Objection from brain activity 10 -- 1.4.2 Objection from sorites paradoxes 12 -- 1.4.3 Objection from begging the question 14 -- 1.4.4 Objection from sperm and egg 14 -- 1.4.5 Objection from fission and totipotency 16 -- 1.4.6 Objection from cloning and parthenogenesis 19 -- 1.5 A Feminist Argument for Abortion 22 -- 1.6 Foetus, the Person and the Person 31 -- 1.7 Abortion, the Law and the Public Good -- A Concluding Note 41 -- 1.7.1 'I personally disapprove of abortion but would not impose my opinion on other people' 41 -- 1.7.2 'It is not the business of the law to interfere with such a difficult decision' 44 -- 1.7.3 'Backstreet' objection 45 -- 2 Euthanasia 48 -- 2.2".
- catalog tableOfContents "Capital Punishment -- The Argument 156 -- 4.4 Objections 162 -- 4.4.1 What if an innocent person is executed? 162 -- 4.4.2 Capital punishment is irreversible 164 -- 4.4.3 Capital punishment is not a deterrent 165 -- 4.4.4 Capital punishment is just state-sanctioned murder 168 -- 4.4.5 Capital punishment is cruel and inhuman 169 -- 4.4.6 What about mercy and compassion? 169 -- 4.4.7 Capital punishment fails to respect persons 171 -- 4.5 Concluding Remarks on Hypocrisy 178 -- 5 War 182 -- 5.1 Some Questions 182 -- 5.2 War, Pacifism and Self-Defence 185 -- 5.2.1 Self-defence -- basic principles 191 -- 5.3 Going to War 198 -- 5.3.1 Basic principles of the just war 201 -- 5.3.2 Just cause 205 -- 5.3.3 Questions about the justice of the cause 211 -- 5.4 Conduct During War 215 -- 5.5 Globalism 224.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Varieties of Euthanasia 50 -- 2.3 Voluntary Euthanasia and Autonomy 54 -- 2.4 Non-Voluntary Euthanasia and 'Quality of Life 60 -- 2.5 Active and Passive Euthanasia 71 -- 2.6 Ordinary and Extraordinary Means 80 -- 2.7 Euthanasia, Death and 'Brain Death' 85 -- 2.8 Euthanasia and Nazism 94 -- 3 Animals 97 -- 3.1 Problem 97 -- 3.2 Conditions for Rights -- What They Are Not 98 -- 3.2.1 Consciousness 99 -- 3.2.2 Beliefs and desires 105 -- 3.2.3 Language 109 -- 3.2.4 Self-consciousness 114 -- 3.2.5 Action in pursuit of desires and goals 117 -- 3.3 Conditions for Rights -- What They Are 121 -- 3.3.1 Knowledge of purpose 122 -- 3.3.2 Free will 127 -- 3.4 Two Dilemmas for the View that Animals Have Rights 136 -- 3.5 So How Should We Treat Animals? 138 -- 4 Capital Punishment 144 -- 4.1 A Conflict? 144 -- 4.2 Punishment -- General Principles 146 -- 4.3".
- catalog title "Applied ethics : a non-consequentialist approach / David S. Oderberg.".
- catalog type "text".