Making Mortal Choices

Making Mortal Choices by Hugo Adam Bedau

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.

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, Vol110, 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.

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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ISBN 13	9780195108781
ISBN 10	0195108787
Title	Making Mortal Choices
Author	Hugo Adam Bedau
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	1997-05-01
Number of pages	134
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