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Author:

Paterson, Craig, 1965-

Title:

Assisted suicide and euthanasia : a natural law ethics approach / Craig Paterson.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

x, 217 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Assisted suicide--Moral and ethical aspects.
Euthanasia--Moral and ethical aspects.
Natural law.
Suicide, Assisted--ethics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-209) and index.

Contents:

1. Introduction -- 1.1. Contemporary debate -- 1.2. Natural law ethics -- 1.3. Suicide, assisted suicide and euthanasia -- 1.4. Subsequent arrangement of the book -- 2. Justifications for suicide, assisted suicide and euthanasia -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Invalid religious arguments -- 2.3. Inconsistency in killing -- 2.4. A life worth living -- 2.5. Arguments from self-determination -- 2.6. Rejection of double effect reasoning -- 2.7. Politics, anti-perfectionism and neutrality -- 3. A Revised natural law ethics -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Secular not supernatural -- 3.3. Non-natural not natural -- 3.4. Whose practical rationality? -- 3.5. The first principle of practical rationality -- 3.6. The primary goods of persons -- 3.7. Non-primary or secondary goods -- 3.8. Pluralism and normative theory -- 3.9. Key requirements of practical rationality -- 4. The good of human life -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Action types -- 4.3. Elements of an action -- 4.4. Normative demands -- 4.5. Negative demands and concrete moral absolutes -- 4.6. Killing and double effect reasoning -- 4.7. Disaster escape clauses -- 5. Suicide, assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Species of homicide -- 5.3. Better off dead? -- 5.4. Quality-of-life -- 5.5. Killing and letting die -- 5.6. Intentional killing and personal autonomy -- 5.7. Some interesting cases from the literature -- 6. Non-voluntary and involuntary euthanasia -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Already dead -- 6.3. Not all humans beings are persons -- 6.4. Anencephalic infants, PVS patients and non-voluntary euthanasia -- 6.5. Involuntary euthanasia -- 7. State intervention and the common good -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Anti-perfectionism and state authority -- 7.3. Liberal perfectionism -- 7.4. Natural law ethics and the common good -- 7.5. Slippery slopes -- Conclusion.

Series:

Live questions in ethics and moral philosophy

ISBN:

0754657469 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780754657460 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0754657450 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780754657453 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007025877

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)