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Author Paterson, Craig, 1965-

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

Publication Info. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 217 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Live questions in ethics and moral philosophy
Live questions in ethics and moral philosophy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-209) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Justifications for suicide, assisted suicide and euthanasia -- A revised natural law ethics -- The good of human life -- Suicide, assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia -- Non-voluntary and involuntary euthanasia -- State intervention and the common good.
Summary As medical technology advances and severely injured or ill people can be kept alive and functioning long beyond what was previously medically possible, the debate surrounding the ethics of end-of-life care and quality-of-life issues has grown more urgent. In this lucid and vigorous book, Craig Paterson discusses assisted suicide and euthanasia from a fully fledged but non-dogmatic secular natural law perspective. He rehabilitates and revitalises the natural law approach to moral reasoning by developing a pluralistic account of just why we are required by practical rationality to respect and not violate key demands generated by the primary goods of persons, especially human life. Important issues that shape the moral quality of an action are explained and analysed: intention/foresight; action/omission; action/consequences; killing/letting die; innocence/non-innocence; person/non-person. Paterson defends the central normative proposition that 'it is always a serious moral wrong to intentionally kill an innocent human person, whether self or another, notwithstanding any further appeal to consequences or motive'.
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Subject Assisted suicide -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Assisted suicide -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Natural law.
Natural law.
Suicide, Assisted -- ethics.
Euthanasia -- ethics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Paterson, Craig, 1965- Assisted suicide and euthanasia. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008 (DLC) 2007025877
ISBN 9780754692959 (electronic book)
0754692957 (electronic book)
9780754657453 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0754657450 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780754657460 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0754657469 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 9786611332754