Human life, action and ethics
Subtitle: essays by G.E.M. Anscombe
By: edited by Mary Geach and Luke Gormally.
Contributors: Geach, Mary.; Gormally, Luke.
Series: St Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs -- v. 4
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Exeter, UK; Charlottesville, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Ethics
Notes: Gift of Stephen and Harriet Wender.

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