Human Life, Action and Ethics : Essays by G. E. M. Anscombe,9781845400613

Human Life, Action and Ethics : Essays by G. E. M. Anscombe

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ISBN13: 9781845400613
ISBN10: 1845400615
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-04-01
Publisher(s): Ingram Pub Services
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Summary

This is the first collection of essays by the celebrated philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe since the publication of three volumes of her papers in 1981. This new collection includes articles published subsequent to those volumes and not hitherto gathered, previously unpublished papers on human nature and practical philosophy, together with the classic essay ?Modern Moral Philosophy? and a few otherwise difficult to obtain early pieces such as her Listener article ?Does Oxford Moral Philosophy Corrupt the Youth?? The appearance of this volume is a major publishing event.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Luke Gormally
Introduction xiii
Mary Geach
Human Life
Analytical Philosophy and the Spirituality of Man
3(14)
Has Mankind One Soul: An Angel Distributed Through Many Bodies?
17(10)
Human Essence
27(12)
Were You a Zygote?
39(6)
Embryos and Final Causes
45(14)
Knowledge and Reverence for Human Life
59(8)
The Dignity of the Human Being
67(10)
Action and Practical Reason
Chisholm on Action
77(12)
The Causation of Action
89(20)
Practical Inference
109(40)
Practical Truth
149(12)
Ethics
Does Oxford Moral Philosophy Corrupt Youth?
161(8)
Modern Moral Philosophy
169(26)
Good and Bad Human Action
195(12)
Action, Intention and `Double Effect'
207(20)
The Controversy over a New Morality
227(10)
Must One Obey One's Conscience?
237(6)
Glanville Williams' The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law: A Review
243(6)
Who is Wronged? Philippa Foot on Double Effect
249(4)
Prolegomenon to a Pursuit of the Definition of Murder: The Illegal and the Unlawful
253(8)
Murder and the Morality of Euthanasia
261(18)
Commentary on John Harris' `Ethical Problems in the Management of Severely Handicapped Children'
279(6)
Sins of Omission? The Non-Treatment of Controls in Clinical Trials
285(7)
Index 292

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