Human life, action and ethics : essays / / by G.E.M. Anscombe ; edited by Mary Geach and Luke Gormally.

• Superior document: St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Anscombe, G. E. M.
• TeilnehmendeR: Geach, Mary.; Gormally, Luke.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs.
• Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged).

Table of Contents

Analytical philosophy and the spirituality of man -- Has mankind one soul : an angel distributed through many bodies? -- Human essence -- Were you a zygote? -- Embryos and final causes -- Knowledge and reverence for human life -- The dignity of the human being -- Chisholm on action -- The causation of action -- Practical inference -- Practical truth -- Does Oxford moral philosophy corrupt youth? -- Modern moral philosophy -- Good and bad human action -- Action, intention and 'double effect' -- The controversy over a new morality -- Must one obey one's conscience? -- Glanville Williams' The sanctity of life and the criminal law : a review -- Who is wronged? : Philippa Foot on double effect -- Prolegomenon to a pursuit of the definition of murder : the illegal and the unlawful -- Murder and the morality of euthanasia -- Commentary on John Harris' 'Ethical problems in the management of severely handicapped children' -- Sins of omission? -- The non-treatment of controls in clinical trials.