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  1. When Does Human Life Begin?Maureen L. Condic - 2009 - The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 9 (1):129-149.
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  • (2 other versions)Summa Theologiae (1265-1273).Thomas Aquinas - 1911 - Edited by Fathers of the English Dominican Province.
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  • Practical Ethics.John Martin Fischer - 1983 - Philosophical Review 92 (2):264.
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  • (3 other versions)Practical Ethics.Peter Singer - 1979 - New York: Cambridge University Press. Edited by Susan J. Armstrong & Richard George Botzler.
    For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some of the questions discussed in this book concern our daily lives. Is it ethical to buy luxuries when others do not have enough to eat? Should we buy meat from intensively reared animals? Am (...)
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  • (2 other versions)Natural Law and Natural Rights.John Finnis - 1979 - New York: Oxford University Press UK.
    Natural Law and Natural Rights is widely recognised as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of law, and an essential reference point for all students of the subject. This new edition includes a substantial postscript by the author responding to thirty years of comment, criticism, and further work in the field.
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  • (2 other versions)The Elements of Moral Philosophy.James Rachels & Stuart Rachels - 2018 - New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education. Edited by James Rachels.
    The Elements of Moral Philosophy 9e by James Rachels and Stuart Rachels is a best-selling text for undergraduate courses in ethics. Thirteen thought-provoking chapters introduce readers to major moral concepts and theories in philosophy through clear, understandable explanations and compelling discussions. Chapters are written so that they may be read independently of one another thus providing greater flexibility for students and instructors.
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  • Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False.Thomas Nagel - 2012 - New York, US: Oxford University Press.
    The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. (...)
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  • Human Dignity in the Theory of Human Rights: Nothing But a Phrase?Charles R. Beitz - 2013 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 41 (3):259-290.
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  • A Critique of Principlism.K. D. Clouser & B. Gert - 1990 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 15 (2):219-236.
    The authors use the term “principlism” to refer to the practice of using “principles” to replace both moral theory and particular moral rules and ideals in dealing with the moral problems that arise in medical practice. The authors argue that these “principles” do not function as claimed, and that their use is misleading both practically and theoretically. The “principles” are in fact not guides to action, but rather they are merely names for a collection of sometimes superficially related matters for (...)
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  • Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children.Julian Savulescu - 2001 - Bioethics 15 (5-6):413-426.
    We have a reason to use information which is available about such genes in our reproductive decision-making; (3) couples should selec.
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  • In Incognito: The Principle of Double Effect in American Constitutional Law.Edward C. Lyons - 2005 - Florida Law Review 57 (3):469-563.
    Abstract: In Vacco v. Quill, 521 U.S. 793 (1997), the Supreme Court for the first time in American case law explicitly applied the principle of double effect to reject an equal protection claim to physician-assisted suicide. Double effect, traced historically to Thomas Aquinas, proposes that under certain circumstances it is permissible unintentionally to cause foreseen evil effects that would not be permissible to cause intentionally. The court rejected the constitutional claim on the basis of a distinction marked out by the (...)
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  • (2 other versions)Natural law and natural rights.John Finnis - 1979 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    This new edition includes a substantial postscript by the author, in which he responds to thirty years of discussion, criticism and further work in the field to ...
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  • (1 other version)On the moral and legal status of abortion.Mary Anne Warren - 1973 - The Monist 57 (1):43-61.
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  • A treatise of human nature: a critical edition.David Hume - 2007 - New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by David Fate Norton & Mary J. Norton.
    David and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of Hume's Treatise, one of the greatest philosophical works ever written. The first volume contains the critical text of David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (1739/40), followed by the short Abstract (1740) in which Hume set out the key arguments of the larger work; the volume concludes with A Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend in Edinburgh (1745), Hume's later defense of the Treatise.
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  • (1 other version)Principia ethica.George Edward Moore - 1903 - Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications. Edited by Thomas Baldwin.
    First published in 1903, this volume revolutionized philosophy and forever altered the direction of ethical studies. A philosopher’s philosopher, G. E. Moore was the idol of the Bloomsbury group, and Lytton Strachey declared that Principia Ethica marked the rebirth of the Age of Reason. This work clarifies some of moral philosophy’s most common confusions and redefines the science’s terminology. Six chapters explore: the subject matter of ethics, naturalistic ethics, hedonism, metaphysical ethics, ethics in relation to conduct, and the ideal. Moore's (...)
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  • (1 other version)Skepticism about practical reason.Christine M. Korsgaard - 1986 - Journal of Philosophy 83 (1):5-25.
    Content skepticism about practical reason is doubt about the bearing of rational considerations on the activities of deliberation and choice. Motivational skepticism is doubt about the scope of reason as a motive. Some people think that motivational considerations alone provide grounds for skepticism about the project of founding ethics on practical reason. I will argue, against this view, that motivational skepticism must always be based on content skepticism. I will not address the question of whether or not content skepticism is (...)
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  • (1 other version)Thomistic Ethics in America.John Haldane - 2000 - Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 3 (4):150-168.
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  • Human Functioning and Social Justice: In Defense of Aristotelian Essentialism.Martha C. Nussbaum - 1992 - Political Theory 20 (2):202-246.
    It will be seen how in place of the wealth and poverty of political economy come the rich human being and rich human need. The rich human being is simultaneously the human being in need of totality of human life-activities — the man in whom his own realization exists as an inner necessity, as need. Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Svetaketu abstained from food for fifteen days. Then he came to his father and said, `What shall I say?' (...)
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  • The New Natural Law Theory.Christopher Tollefsen - 2008 - Lyceum 10 (1).
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  • Doing away with double effect.Alison McIntyre - 2001 - Ethics 111 (2):219-255.
    I will introduce six constraints that should guide the formulation and use of DE. One goal in listing them is to engage in dialectical fair play by ruling out criticisms of the doctrine that are directed at misformulations of DE or that result from misapplications of it. Each of these constraints should be acceptable to any proponent of DE. Yet when these constraints on the application of DE are respected, it becomes clear that many of the examples provided as illustrations (...)
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  • Natural Law and Natural Rights.William H. Wilcox - 1983 - Philosophical Review 92 (4):599.
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  • (1 other version)10. Thomistic Ethics in America.John Haldane - 2000 - Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 3 (4).
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  • (1 other version)Principia Ethica.G. E. Moore - 1903 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 13 (3):7-9.
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  • (1 other version)Skepticism about Practical Reason.Christine M. Korsgaard - 1986 - Journal of Philosophy 83 (1):5-25.
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  • Is Thomas’s Natural Law Theory Naturalist?Patrick Lee - 1997 - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 71 (4):567-587.
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  • Principia Ethica.Evander Bradley McGilvary - 1904 - Philosophical Review 13 (3):351.
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  • The metaphysical foundations of natural law.David Simon Oderberg - unknown
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  • Natural Law and Natural Rights.Richard Tuck - 1981 - Philosophical Quarterly 31 (124):282-284.
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  • (4 other versions)Nuclear Deterrence, Morality, and Realism.John Finnis, Joseph M. Boyle, Germain Grisez & Gregory Kavka - 1989 - Ethics 99 (2):407-422.
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  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights.United Nations - 1948 - Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 21 (1-2):153-160.
    On 10 December 1948, the General Assembly ofthe United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a truly historic document, the full text of which is reproduced here. Following this historic act, the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories." Jacques Maritain was (...)
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  • Disambiguating Clinical Intentions: The Ethics of Palliative Sedation.L. A. Jansen - 2010 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 35 (1):19-31.
    It is often claimed that the intentions of physicians are multiple, ambiguous, and uncertain—at least with respect to end-of-life care. This claim provides support for the conclusion that the principle of double effect is of little or no value as a guide to end-of-life pain management. This paper critically discusses this claim. It argues that proponents of the claim fail to distinguish two different senses of “intention,” and that, as a result, they are led to exaggerate the extent to which (...)
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  • Natural Law and Ethical Pluralism.John H. Haldane - 2009 - In Richard Madsen & Tracy B. Strong (eds.), The Many and the One: Religious and Secular Perspectives on Ethical Pluralism in the Modern World. Princeton University Press. pp. 89-114.
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  • The epistemic connection between nature and value in new and traditional natural law theory.Bebhinn Donnelly - 2006 - Law and Philosophy 25 (1):1-29.
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  • Intractable moral disagreements.Alasdair MacIntyre - 2009 - In Lawrence Cunningham (ed.), Intractable Disputes About the Natural Law: Alasdair Macintyre and Critics. University of Notre Dame Press.
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  • (1 other version)Practical Ethics.Peter Singer - 1979 - Philosophy 56 (216):267-268.
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  • (4 other versions)Nuclear Deterrence, Morality and Realism.John Finnis, Joseph M. Boyle & Germain Grisez - 1988 - Philosophy 63 (244):277-279.
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  • (4 other versions)Nuclear Deterrence, Morality and Realism.John Finnis, Joseph M. Boyle, Germain Grisez & Jefferson Mcmahan - 1990 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 19 (1):93-106.
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  • Moral Philosophy in Bioethics. Etsi ethos non daretur?Adriano Pessina - unknown
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  • (4 other versions)Nuclear Deterrence, Morality and Realism.John Finnis, Joseph M. Boyle & Germain Grisez - 1988 - The Personalist Forum 4 (1):44-46.
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