عنوان

Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: a Natural Law Ethics Approach

شماره

2216302

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

eng

عنوان اصلي

Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: a Natural Law Ethics Approach

نام نخستين پديدآور

Craig Paterson

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Ashgate

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2008

نام خاص و کميت اثر

x, 217 p.

عنوان فروست

Live questions in ethics and moral philosophy

متن يادداشت

E.Book: 25108

متن يادداشت

As medical technology advances and severely injured or ill people can be kept alive and functioning long beyond what was previously medically possible, the debate surrounding the ethics of end-of-life care and quality-of-life issues has grown more urgent.In this lucid and vigorous new book, Craig Paterson discusses assisted suicide and euthanasia from a fully fledged but non-dogmatic secular natural law perspective. He rehabilitates and revitalises the natural law approach to moral reasoning by developing a pluralistic account of just why we are required by practical rationality to respect and not violate key demands generated by the primary goods of persons, especially human life.Important issues that shape the moral quality of an action are explained and analysed: intention/foresight; action/omission; action/consequences; killing/letting die; innocence/non-innocence; and, person/non-person. Paterson defends the central normative proposition that 'it is always a serious moral wrong to intentionally kill an innocent human person, whether self or another, notwithstanding any further appeal to consequences or motive'.

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-209) and index

متن يادداشت

Introduction -- Justifications for suicide, assisted suicide and euthanasia -- A revised natural law ethics -- The good of human life -- Suicide, assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia -- Non-voluntary and involuntary euthanasia -- State intervention and the common good.

موضوع مستند نشده

Assisted suicide--Moral and ethical aspects.

موضوع مستند نشده

Euthanasia--Moral and ethical aspects.

موضوع مستند نشده

Natural law.

موضوع مستند نشده

Suicide, Assisted--ethics.

موضوع مستند نشده

Euthanasia--ethics.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Paterson, Craig, 1965-