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1 online resource (xii, 299 pages) |
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On understanding others -- Life and not-life in Thucydides' Funeral oration -- Death and resurrection in Euripides' Bacchae -- Resurrection and death in Everyman -- John Milton and the limits of the Garden of Eden -- Human morality and the Declaration of Independence -- Time and the Constitution -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the modern project -- Public health and private consciences -- The Flag Salute Cases (1940, 1943) -- Conscientious objectors and military conscription -- Obliteration bombing, civilian casualties, and the laws of war -- Do all somehow aim at the good? -- Shakespeare's Hamlet and the elusiveness of the good -- Unconventional religious duties and the good life -- Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) and the prevention of conception -- Roe v. Wade (1973) and the law of abortion -- Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) and the persistence of the abortion issue -- Capital punishment and the United States Supreme Court -- Capital punishment reconsidered -- Nancy Cruzan and "The right to die" -- Washington v. Glucksberg (1997) and assisted suicide -- The legislation of morality and the problem of pain -- Evolution and the law -- Life and death in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address -- The unseemly fearfulness of our time. |
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Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
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9780813173276 (electronic bk.) |
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0813173272 (electronic bk.) |
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