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Human Lives

Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics

  • Hardback
  • 256 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • 14 x 21.6 x 2 cm

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Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics is a collection of original papers by philosophers from Britain, the USA and Australia. The aim of the book is to redress the imbalance in moral philosophy created by the dominance of consequentialism, the view that the criterion of morality is the maximization of good effects over bad, without regard for basic right or wrong. This approach has become the orthodoxy over the last few decades, particularly in the field of bioethics, where moral theory is applied to matters of life and death. The essays in Human Lives critically examine the assumptions and arguments of consequentialism, reviving in the process important concepts such as rights, justice, innocence, natural integrity, flourishing, the virtues, and the fundamental value of human life.
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  • Authors

    David S. Oderberg +1

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Palgrave Macmillan

  • Published

    November 1996

  • Weight

    477g

  • Page Count

    256

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780333629802

  • ISBN-10

    0333629809

  • Eden Code

    4570954

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