Bird on an Ethics Wire
eBook - ePub

Bird on an Ethics Wire

Battles about Values in the Culture Wars

  1. 344 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Bird on an Ethics Wire

Battles about Values in the Culture Wars

About this book

An exploration of the urgent need to rebalance individuals' unfettered freedom to choose, especially regarding birth and death.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Should Religion Be Evicted from the Public Square?
  11. 2 Are Our ā€œValues Conversationsā€ Sufficiently Open and Free? The University as a Test Case
  12. 3 Is the Concept of Human Dignity Useful, Useless, or Dangerous?
  13. 4 Legalizing Euthanasia: Evolution or Revolution in Societal Values?
  14. 5 Is Every Life Beautiful?
  15. 6 How Might a Problem – a Crisis Pregnancy – Be Converted to a Mystery, the Gift of Life?
  16. 7 How Might the Involvement of ā€œApplied Ethicsā€ in Law Affect Our Societal Values? Ethics as ā€œFirst Aidā€ for Law
  17. 8 What Questions Are We Asking in Contemporary Cultural Values Conversations, and What Messages Are They Communicating?
  18. Appendices
  19. Notes
  20. Index