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100 1 $aJeffko, Walter G.
245 10 $aContemporary ethical issues :$ba personalist perspective /$cWalter G. Jeffko.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aAmherst, N.Y. :$bHumanity Books,$c2008.
300 $a448 p. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 403-422) and index.
505 0 $aPerson, reason, and value -- Moral value, intentionality, and community -- Suicide and the right to die -- Abortion, personhood, and community -- Euthanasia : a reinterpretation -- The death penalty and purposes of punishment -- Privacy, private property, and justice -- The personalist society, community, and justice -- The moral treatment of animals -- Affirmative action and justice -- Community and the environmental crisis.
520 1 $a"This second edition of Contemporary Ethical Issues explores a series of compelling moral problems from a personalistic perspective influenced by the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray (1891-1976). In his many books, articles, and other pamphlets spanning fifty years, most notably his Gifford Lectures titled "The Form of the Personal," Macmurray developed a robust personalism that emphasizes the primacy of persons as rational agents whose self-realization is achieved in a loving community where justice and individual rights are respected. Walter G. Jeffko utilizes key elements of Macmurray's thought in developing his own philosophical viewpoint; and he relates Macmurray's ideas to those of a wide variety of important philosophers, ethicists, and other notable thinkers, including ecologists."--Jacket.
650 0 $aEthical problems.
650 0 $aPersonalism.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aJeffko, Walter G.$tContemporary ethical issues.$b2nd ed.$dAmherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books, 2008$w(OCoLC)777191714
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