Format:
1 Online-Ressource (377 p)
ISBN:
9780773546400
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Should Religion Be Evicted from the Public Square? -- 2 Are Our "Values Conversations" Sufficiently Open and Free? The University as a Test Case -- 3 Is the Concept of Human Dignity Useful, Useless, or Dangerous? -- 4 Legalizing Euthanasia: Evolution or Revolution in Societal Values? -- 5 Is Every Life Beautiful? -- 6 How Might a Problem - a Crisis Pregnancy - Be Converted to a Mystery, the Gift of Life? -- 7 How Might the Involvement of "Applied Ethics" in Law Affect Our Societal Values? Ethics as "First Aid" for Law
Content:
8 What Questions Are We Asking in Contemporary Cultural Values Conversations, and What Messages Are They Communicating? -- APPENDICES -- A: The Best Teacher I Ever Had Was My Father, George Patrick Ganley -- B: Three Statements on Academic Freedom -- C: Use of the Concept of Human Dignity in Four International Instruments -- D: The Declaration of Montreal -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y
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Additional Edition:
9780773598140
Additional Edition:
9780773546400
Additional Edition:
Print version Somerville, Margaret Bird on an Ethics Wire : Battles about Values in the Culture Wars Montreal : MQUP,c2015
Language:
English
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