Easeful Death sets out in straightforward terms the main arguments both for and against the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia. The legal choices confronting those caring for the terminally ill, and indeed those patients themselves who may be facing intolerable suffering towards the end of their lives, have been the cause of fierce ...
For this edition of her well established book, Mary Warnock has made a number of additions, in particular a discussion of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. These bring up to date a well-informed and discriminating account of the main ethical problems of the twentieth and 21st centuries.
The development of new reproductive technologies has raised urgent questions and debates about how and by whom these treatments should be controlled. On the one hand individuals and groups have claimed access to assisted reproduction as a right, and some have also claimed that this access should be available free of charge. As well as clinically ...
Warnock, a fixture in British philosophy and education, has penned a memoir of her life as a public academic. Like her philosophy, this memoir is readable and trenchant, loitering only slightly more over Left-Wing Politics and Margaret Thatcher than over the privileges of success.
Existentialism enjoyed great popularity in the 1940s and 1950s, and has probably had a greater impact upon literature than any other kind of philosophy. The common interest which unites Existentialist philosophers is their interest in human freedom. Readers of Existentialist philosophy are being asked, not merely to contemplate the nature of ...
Nature and Mortality is a challenging look at some of the major public issues of our time through the eyes of one of our most influential and probing writers. Mary Warnock, a professional philosopher, gives a frank account on where we stand today on such disturbing matters as human embryology, genetic engineering, euthanasia and abortion. ...
With absorbing details of country life and a look at a Christmas of the past, along with elegant, hand-colored woodcuts, this book captures the strength of family, the magic of Christmas, and the love of place all year long. Full color.
This book combines John Stuart Mill's key writings, Utilitarianism, On Liberty, and 'Essay on Bentham', with formative selections from Mill's greatest influences, Jeremy Bentham and John Austin, and a discerning introduction written by the renowned ethics scholar Mary Warnock. This combination provides a thorough and perspicuous view of Mill's ...
All religion and much philosophy has been concerned with the contrast between the ephemeral and the eternal. Human beings have always sought ways to overcome time, and to prove that death is not the end. This book consists then in an exploration of certain closely related ideas: personal identity, time, history and our commitment to the future, ...
This selection consists of extracts from writings of women concerned solely with the pursuit of "abstract ideas", historically contextualized. The texts, for the most part, reflect issues widely debated in their contemporary societies. Extracts from lesser-known writers are also included, providing a diversity of arguments spanning four centuries ...
The determination of ordinary people to end regional and global conflicts is a powerful force for peace in today's world. The Struggle for Peace explores how average citizens on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are working for peace. New essays by noted scholars are juxtaposed with profiles of individual Israelis and Palestinians ...
When Did I Begin? investigates the theoretical, moral and biological issues surrounding the debate over the beginning of human life. With the continuing controversy over the use of in vitro fertilization techniques and experimentation with human embryos, these issues have been forced into the arena of public debate. The answer to the question, ...
In this guide to ethics, controversial even before its publication, Mary Warnock debates issues such as abortion, euthanasia, Down's Syndrome, education and genetic engineering, aiming to explain how to distinguish right from wrong. Drawing on examples from her personal and political life, she illustrates difficult cases to make her point and ...
This book combines John Stuart Mill's key writings, Utilitarianism, On Liberty, and 'Essay on Bentham', with formative selections from Mill's greatest influences, Jeremy Bentham and John Austin, and a discerning introduction written by the renowned ethics scholar Mary Warnock. This combination provides a thorough and perspicuous view of Mill's ...
In this sequel to "Imagination", Mary Warnock's aim is to answer the elusive question "why do we value so highly our ability to recall the past?". Her quest centres on an examination of the relationship between the concepts of memory and personal identity as seen both by philsophers and poets, novelists and writers of diaries and autobiographies. ...
Un libro controvertido que enfrentara a pensadores y creadores de opinion en torno a los problemas morales que plantea la sociedad contemporanea, y ante los cuales el ciudadano ha de articular una respuesta personal. La eutanasia, el aborto, las discapacidades psiquicas o las fronteras de la ingenieria genetica son algunas de las cuestiones para ...
This book places the arguments of the current debate on education into perspective, analyzes the essential issues and proposes a way forward. Warnock outlines the principles underlying education at all levels and argues that there should be a common policy within which providers of education can share essentially common aims. She considers the ...
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