Assisted suicide and euthanasia : a natural law ethics approach /
Paterson, Craig, 1965-
Assisted suicide and euthanasia : a natural law ethics approach / Craig Paterson. - Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008. - 1 online resource (x, 217 pages) - Live questions in ethics and moral philosophy . - Live questions in ethics and moral philosophy. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-209) and index.
Introduction -- Justifications for suicide, assisted suicide and euthanasia -- A revised natural law ethics -- The good of human life -- Suicide, assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia -- Non-voluntary and involuntary euthanasia -- State intervention and the common good.
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'.
9780754692959 (electronic bk.) 0754692957 (electronic bk.) 6611332758 9786611332754 (hardcover ; alk. paper) (hardcover ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9786611332754
133275 MIL
DNLM
Assisted suicide--Moral and ethical aspects.
Euthanasia--Moral and ethical aspects.
Natural law.
Suicide, Assisted--ethics
Euthanasia--ethics
Ethics
Aide au suicide--Aspect moral.
Euthanasie--Aspect moral.
Droit naturel.
PHILOSOPHY--Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Assisted suicide--Moral and ethical aspects.
Euthanasia--Moral and ethical aspects.
Natural law.
Naturrecht
Selbstmord
Beihilfe
Selbstbestimmung
Assisted suicide--Moral and ethical aspects.
Euthanasia--Moral and ethical aspects.
Natural law.
Euthanasie.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
R726 / .P39 2008eb
179.7
340.632
2008 G-421 WB 60 / P296a 2008
Assisted suicide and euthanasia : a natural law ethics approach / Craig Paterson. - Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008. - 1 online resource (x, 217 pages) - Live questions in ethics and moral philosophy . - Live questions in ethics and moral philosophy. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-209) and index.
Introduction -- Justifications for suicide, assisted suicide and euthanasia -- A revised natural law ethics -- The good of human life -- Suicide, assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia -- Non-voluntary and involuntary euthanasia -- State intervention and the common good.
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'.
9780754692959 (electronic bk.) 0754692957 (electronic bk.) 6611332758 9786611332754 (hardcover ; alk. paper) (hardcover ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9786611332754
133275 MIL
DNLM
Assisted suicide--Moral and ethical aspects.
Euthanasia--Moral and ethical aspects.
Natural law.
Suicide, Assisted--ethics
Euthanasia--ethics
Ethics
Aide au suicide--Aspect moral.
Euthanasie--Aspect moral.
Droit naturel.
PHILOSOPHY--Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Assisted suicide--Moral and ethical aspects.
Euthanasia--Moral and ethical aspects.
Natural law.
Naturrecht
Selbstmord
Beihilfe
Selbstbestimmung
Assisted suicide--Moral and ethical aspects.
Euthanasia--Moral and ethical aspects.
Natural law.
Euthanasie.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
R726 / .P39 2008eb
179.7
340.632
2008 G-421 WB 60 / P296a 2008