Ethical principles and practice
By: edited by John Howie.
Contributors: Howie, John.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Ethics; Social ethics
Description: The second volume in applied ethics based on the distinguished Wayne Leys Memorial Lectureship Series. With guidelines from legal reasoning, Michael D. Bayles examines <U+0032>Moral Theory and Application.<U+0033> Abraham Edel questions <U+0032>Ethics Applied Or Conduct Enlightened?<U+0033> The late Warner A. Wick shows in <U+0032>The Good Person and the Good Society: Some Ideals Foolish and Otherwise<U+0033> that devotion to ideals need not be either fanaticism or foolishness. John Lachs contends that many public gains are purchased at the cost of individuals being manipulated in <U+0032>Public Benefit, Private Costs.<U+0033> James E. Childress in <U+0032>Gift of Life{u2026}<U+0033> considers ethical issues in obtaining and distributing human organs. Carl Wellman in <U+0032>Terrorism and Moral Rights<U+0033> argues that there can be no <U+0032>rights-based justification<U+0033> for anti-abortion terrorism.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 157-164.
Includes index.