On Human Care: An Introduction to Ethics

1817 LIBRARIES act utilitarianism actions or policies application of ethical argue assumption beneficent euthanasia chapter characteristics of actions Christian ethics consider context crisis environmentalists debate decisions developmental distributivists discussion ethical relativism ethical terms Ethical Theory ethicists evil example family planners Family Planning Firth Frankena G. E. Moore greatest number groups harm human ideal moral judge ideal observer theory identified individuals injury John Rawls justice killing kind Kohl Kohl's lives means metaethical methodological relativism moral assertions moral discourse moral evaluations moral judgments moral obligation moral philosophy moral principles moral reasoning moral rules morally significant Mosaic covenant nonmoral normative ethics one's particular patients persons philosophical physicians pleasure population growth population policy principle of beneficence problems professionals psychological relativism question rational readers recognize relativists religious ethics right or wrong right-making rule utilitarianism Samaritan situation social society someone specific stringent Theory of Justice thinking W. D. Ross wrong-making characteristics