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Active Voluntary Euthanasia
Anencephalic Infants
Artificial Hydration
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bioethics
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Contemporary UK
Double Effect Reasoning
end-of-life decision making
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Foresight Distinction
Good Life
Human Suffering
intention foresight distinction
intentional
Intentional Killing
Involuntary Euthanasia
killing
Liberated Secular Society
medical law
Moore's Open Question Argument
Moore’s Open Question Argument
moral philosophy
Natural Law Approach
Natural Law Ethics
Non-intended Side Effect
Non-voluntary Active Euthanasia
Non-voluntary Euthanasia
Passive Euthanasia
Political Common Good
practical rationality
Primary Good
Primary Human Good
PVS Patient
secular ethics
Vice Versa
Voluntary Euthanasia
Product details
- ISBN 9780754657460
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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; 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’.
Craig Paterson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and an independent scholar. Previously he was engaged in Information Science research at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA and was previously an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Providence College, USA.
