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  • Killing and Christian Ethics

    by Christopher O. Tollefsen ...
    Series series New Studies in Christian Ethics
    Everyone recognizes that it is, in general, wrong to intentionally kill a human being. But are there exceptions to that rule? In Killing and Christian Ethics, Christopher Tollefsen argues that there are no exceptions: the rule is absolute. The absolute view on killing that he defends has important implications for bioethical issues at the beginning and end of life, such as abortion and euthanasia. ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Way of Medicine

    Ethics and the Healing Profession

    by Farr Curlin, Christopher Tollefsen ...
    Series series Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics
    Today’s medicine is spiritually deflated and morally adrift; this book explains why and offers an ethical framework to renew and guide practitioners in fulfilling their profession to heal.What is medicine and what is it for? What does it mean to be a good doctor? Answers to these questions are essential both to the practice of medicine and to understanding the moral norms that shape that practice. ... Read more

    $22.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lying and Christian Ethics

    by Christopher O. Tollefsen ...
    Series series New Studies in Christian Ethics
    This book defends the controversial 'absolute view' of lying, which maintains that an assertion contrary to the speaker's mind is always wrong, regardless of the speaker's intentions. Whereas most people believe that a lie told for a good cause, such as protecting Jews from discovery by Nazis, is morally acceptable, Christopher Tollefsen argues that Christians should support the absolute view. He ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Biomedical Research and Beyond

    Expanding the Ethics of Inquiry

    by Christopher O. Tollefsen ...
    Series series Routledge Annals of Bioethics
    What is the relationship between scientific research and ethics? Some think that science should be free from ethical and political considerations. Biomedical Research and Beyond argues that ethical guidance is essential for all forms of inquiry, including biomedical and scientific research. By addressing some of the most controversial questions of biomedical research, such as embryonic research, ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Film and Faith

    Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe

    by Carson Holloway, Susan McWilliams Barndt, Kirstin Carlson, J. Columcille Dever, Jennifer Frey, David McPherson, R. Michael Olson, Christopher Tollefsen, Jordan J. Ballor, Matthew J. Franck0, Francis J. Beckwith1, Micah Watson2 ...
    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    Film and Faith: Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe explores religious themes in contemporary film with a focus on recent depictions of religion’s continuing manifestations in a secularizing age. The contributors are students of philosophy, political theory, and theology; examine religious and philosophical ideas in commercially and artistically important modern films. They offer a scholarly ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    Embryo

    A Defense of Human Life

    by Robert George, Christopher Tollefsen ...
    Narrated by Nelson Runger ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 19 min

    Princeton's McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Robert P. George and USC's Graduate Director of Philosophy Christopher Tollefsen are experts in the field of bioethics. In Embryo: A Defense of Human Life, these esteemed scholars combine the latest scientific breakthroughs with the soundest tenets of philosophy to shed new light on a vital yet controversial issue of our day. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bioethics with Liberty and Justice

    Themes in the Work of Joseph M. Boyle

    Edited by Christopher Tollefsen ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Joseph M. Boyle Jr. has been a major contributor to the development of Catholic bioethics over the past thirty five years. Boyle’s contribution has had an impact on philosophers, theologians, and medical practitioners, and his work has in many ways come to be synonymous with analytically rigorous philosophical bioethics done in the Catholic intellectual tradition. Four main themes stand out as ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Concepts of Nature

    Ancient and Modern

    by Barry Cooper, Melissa Moschella, Jeremy Seth Geddert, Jesse Covington, James R. Stoner Jr., Christopher O. Tollefsen, Susan Meld Shell, Geoffrey M. Vaughan, Charles T. Rubin, Amy Gilbert Richards, Anna Bonta Moreland, Randall S. Rosenberg, Gregory R. Beabout, Thomas W. Smith, Glenn Hughes, Stephen M. Fields ...
    If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do not share the understanding of nature on which that language was developed? Building on the work of important thinkers of the last half-century, including Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, John Finnis, and Bernard Lonergan, the essays in Concepts of Nature compare and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Subjectivity

    Ancient and Modern

    by Mark Shiffman, Ralph C. Hancock, Phillip Cary, Elizabeth A. Murray, Matthew B. O'Brien, Sherif Girgis, Christopher O. Tollefsen, Amy Gilbert Richards, V. Bradley Lewis, Daniel Mark, James Greenaway0, Jeremy D. Wilkins1, David Walsh3, Steven F. McGuire4, Lee Trepanier6, Richard Velkley7 ...
    In Subjectivity, sixteen leading scholars examine the turn to the subject in modern philosophy and consider its historical antecedents in ancient and medieval thought. Some critics of modernity reject the turn to the subject as a specifically modern error, arguing that it logically leads to nihilism and moral relativism by divorcing the human mind from objective reality. Yet, some important ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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  • Debating Procreation

    Is It Wrong to Reproduce?

    by David Benatar, David Wasserman ...
    Series series Debating Ethics
    While procreation is ubiquitous, attention to the ethical issues involved in creating children is relatively rare. In Debating Procreation, David Benatar and David Wasserman take opposing views on this important question. David Benatar argues for the anti-natalist view that it is always wrong to bring new people into existence. He argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm and that ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Contemporary Debates in Bioethics

    Edited by Arthur L. Caplan, Robert Arp ...
    Series Book 27 - Contemporary Debates in Philosophy
    Contemporary Debates in Bioethics features a timely collection of highly readable, debate-style arguments contributed by many of today's top bioethics scholars, focusing on core bioethical concerns of the twenty-first century.Written in an engaging, debate-style format for accessibility to non-specialistsFeatures general introductions to each topic that precede scholarly debatesPresents the latest ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • Abortion Rights

    For and Against

    by Kate Greasley, Christopher Kaczor ...
    This book features opening arguments followed by two rounds of reply between two moral philosophers on opposing sides of the abortion debate. In the opening essays, Kate Greasley and Christopher Kaczor lay out what they take to be the best case for and against abortion rights. In the ensuing dialogue, they engage with each other's arguments and each responds to criticisms fielded by the other. ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

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