Making Mortal Choices Hugo Adam Bedau (Austin Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Austin Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University)

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This text examines the usefulness of casuistry, or the method of cases in arriving at moral decisions. It seeks to teach something about how we actually reason concerning life and death situations, and how we ought to reason if we wish both to be consistent and properly respect human life.

Making Mortal Choices Summary

Making Mortal Choices: Three Exercises in Moral Casuistry by Hugo Adam Bedau (Austin Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Austin Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University)

Bedau demonstrates the usefulness of casuistry, or the method of cases in arriving at moral decisions. He examines well-known cases that compel us to consider questions about who ought to survive when not all can. By doing so, we learn something about how we actually reason concerning such life and death situations, as well as about how we ought to reason if we wish both to be consistent and properly respect human life.

Making Mortal Choices Reviews

This is a book which can be recommended as a graphic and colourful way in which to approach ethical theory and the problem of making difficult moral choices * MIND, Vol.110, No.439 *
The essays do an excellent job of motivating deep philosophical thought and exhibiting the worth of philosophical reflection. In addition they deepen the reader's understanding of both life and death choices and various important moral principles.-Stephen Nathanson, Northwestern University.

About Hugo Adam Bedau (Austin Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Austin Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University)

Hugo Adam Bedau is Austin Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. He is the author or editor of several books on civil disobedience and on the death penalty, including his most recent, The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies (OUP, 1997).

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GOR008020403

ISBN 13

9780195108781

ISBN 10

0195108787

Title

Making Mortal Choices: Three Exercises in Moral Casuistry by Hugo Adam Bedau (Austin Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Austin Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University)

Author

Hugo Adam Bedau (Austin Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Austin Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University)

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Year published

1997-05-01

Number of pages

134

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