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Extract 7: Mill on the importance of character
Mill was deeply influenced by Aristotle. It could be argued that Mill’s definition of happiness, which embraces goals, expectations and activity,…
Read MoreExtract 5: Caritas in Veritate (Love and Truth) 2009
The Roman Catholic Church has generally taken an anthropocentric (man-centred) view of environmental issues – arguing it is important as an…
Read MoreExtract 3: Against situationism – Veritatis Splendor (1995)
This encyclical published by John Paul II in 1995 argues vigorously against situation ethics and proportionalism. Instead, it is a defence…
Read MoreExtract 2: Article – Situation Ethics and Catholic morality
In this extract from an article by William Murphy (Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, Wntr, 2008 by William…
Read MoreExtract 6:Pope Pius XII 1956
Quotes in this article extract are from Acta Apostolicae Sedis 44 (1956). In this document Pope Pius accuses Situation Ethics of…
Read MoreExtract 6:The Case for euthanasia
Here is an extract from a longer article giving a humanist, Aristotelean justification for euthanasia, by Paul Kurtz. Source: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m6875/is_n3_8/ai_n25021537/ There are…
Read MoreExtract 5: Effect on public conscience
Here is the view of the Christian Medical fellowship, and is part of a longer article giving twelve arguments against euthanasia….
Read MoreExtract 4: Right to Life
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