Human life, action and ethics :

Anscombe, G. E. M.

Human life, action and ethics : essays by G.E.M. Anscombe / edited by Mary Geach and Luke Gormally. - Exeter, UK ; Charlottesville, VA : Imprint Academic, c2005. - xxi, 298 p. ; 22 cm. - St Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs ; v. 4 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Analytical philosophy and the spirituality of man -- Has mankind one soul : an angel distributed through many bodies? -- Human essence -- Were you a zygote? -- Embryos and final causes -- Knowledge and reverence for human life -- The dignity of the human being -- Chisholm on action -- The causation of action -- Practical inference -- Practical truth -- Does Oxford moral philosophy corrupt youth? -- Modern moral philosophy -- Good and bad human action -- Action, intention and 'double effect' -- The controversy over a new morality -- Must one obey one's conscience? -- Glanville Williams' The sanctity of life and the criminal law : a review -- Who is wronged? : Philippa Foot on double effect -- Prolegomenon to a pursuit of the definition of murder : the illegal and the unlawful -- Murder and the morality of euthanasia -- Commentary on John Harris' 'Ethical problems in the management of severely handicapped children' -- Sins of omission? -- The non-treatment of controls in clinical trials.

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