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

by Geach, Mary; Gormally, Luke

• ISBN13: 9781845400613
• ISBN10: 1845400615
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-01
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

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 This new collection includes articles published subsequent to those volumes and not hitherto gathered, previously unpublished papers on human nature and practical philosophy, together with the classic essay ?Modern Moral Philosophy?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