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9780534508241

Life and Death Grappling with the Moral Dilemmas of Our Time

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  • ISBN13:

    9780534508241

  • ISBN10:

    0534508243

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-07-09
  • Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Summary

This single-authored, brief text explores the moral dilemmas in our lives from a philosophical point of view. Society is deeply divided on the matters of life and death discussed in this book: the sanctity of life versus the quality of life; the meaning of death and dying; suicide; euthanasia; abortion; artificial procreation such as in vitro fertilization and cloning; the death penalty; animal rights; world hunger; and war.

Author Biography

Louis P. Pojman teaches philosophy at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, NY. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Preface
Welcome to Moral Philosophy: A Word to the Student
Introduction: "Doctor's Death's" Suicide Machine
1. What is Ethics? 2
Ethical Relativism vs
Ethical Objectivism
3. Egoism, Self-Love, and Altruism
4. Classical Ethical Theories
A
Deontological Ethics
B
Consequentialist Ethics
5. The Sanctity of Life vs
the Quality of Life
6. Death and Dying
7. Suicide
8. Euthanasia
9. What is Death? The Crisis of Criteria
Interlude: The Slippery Slope
10. Abortion: The Greatest Moral Problem of Our Generation
11. Cloning: The Greatest Moral Problem of the Next Generation? 12
The Death Penalty
13. Animal Rights
14 World Hunger and Population
15. War
Bibliography
Index

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