Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333629802)

Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics is a collection of original papers by philosophers from Britain, the USA and Australia. The aim of the book is to redress the imbalance in moral philosophy created by the dominance of consequentialism, the view that the criterion of morality is the maximization of good effects over bad, without regard for basic right or wrong. This approach has become the orthodoxy over the last few decades, particularly in the field of bioethics, where moral theory is applied to matters of life and death. The essays in Human Lives critically examine the assumptions and arguments of consequentialism, reviving in the process important concepts such as rights, justice, innocence, natural integrity, flourishing, the virtues, and the fundamental value of human life.

Author: Jacqueline A. Laing
ISBN-10: 0333629809
ISBN-13: 9780333629802
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/08/1996
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d