Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: A Natural Law Ethics ApproachCraig Paterson discusses assisted suicide and euthanasia from a secular natural law perspective. He analyses important issues that shape the moral quality of an action: intention/foresight, action/omission, action/consequences, killing/letting die, innocence/non-innocence, person/non-person. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Justiļ¬cations for Suicide Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia | 15 |
A Revised Natural Law Ethics | 41 |
The Good of Human Life | 73 |
Suicide Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Euthanasia | 103 |
Nonvoluntary and Involuntary Euthanasia | 129 |
State Intervention and the Common Good | 155 |
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