To kill or not to kill : euthanasia in a society with a cultural death wish / / John Fleming

• Autore: Fleming John
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Austin Macauley Publishers, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (427 pages)
• Disciplina: 179.7
• Soggetto topico: Euthanasia - Religious aspects
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- To Kill or Not to Kill -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgement -- Foreword 1 -- William J. Tighe -- Foreword 2 -- David Flint -- Introduction -- What is at stake? -- The long march through the institutions includes the Church -- The Long March over the precipice -- Chapter 1 -- Euthanasia and Traditional Codes of Medical Ethics -- What is Euthanasia? -- The Crucial Roles of Intention and Motive in the Moral Act, or "I Purposely killed Bill Because He was Having an Affair with My Wife!" -- Euthanasia by Omission of Reasonable Care -- Euthanasia by Omission in Australia -- What's the point of tube feeding? -- How the starting point conditions the Judge's final decision -- When is a Drug Not a Drug, and Does it Matter? -- Who gets to say what palliative care really is? -- Contemporary Medical Ethics and Killing? -- World Medical Association Resolution on Euthanasia -- Traditional Codes of Medical Ethics and Euthanasia -- Implications for the Medical Profession -- Alternative persons who might carry out euthanasia -- Chapter 2 -- History? You Can Take it or Leave It! -- Bridges -- Chapter 3 -- Secularism - Both Religion and Ideology -- Religion or Belief? -- Ideology: part reality and part illusion -- When God is Dead! -- The Decline in Religious Adherence and Practice -- Secular - What Does it Mean? -- Liberty or Progress? -- The Loss of Moral Language and Moral Distinctions -- Politicians and Their Beliefs -- "Free Speech" In the Modern Liberal Democratic State -- Freedom, Religion, Conscience vs the Arrogant Utopianism of Left Liberals -- The Hypocrisy of "Inclusion" -- Folau - the Next Chapter -- Peter Singer and Israel Folau -- Off to Court We Go -- The New Atheism: An Exercise in Ideological Rigidity -- Be Careful What You Think - You May Need to Be Re-Educated!. ; Secularism: A Religion or System of Beliefs -- The New Reality -- Chapter 4 -- Secularism's War Against Family, God, Church and Reason -- Secularism's War against the Family -- Secularism's War against God and Christianity Pitting Reason against Faith -- Faith Needs Reason as Reason Needs Faith -- Religion is Practiced both Publicly and Privately -- Christianity and the First Hospitals -- God of the gaps: science versus religion -- Dawkins Misrepresents St Augustine as Being "Anti-Science" -- What Marxists and Liberal-Democrats Have in Common? - Ideology! -- There is no Proof God Exists - The Default Position of Atheists -- Can Something Come from Nothing? -- Fair-Minded Atheists -- Chapter 5 -- When Ignorance is a Virtue -- Atheism and Belief in God -- Atheism versus Religion -- Religion as Mental Illness - the New Totalitarianism? -- Religion as the Major Cause of Wars - Bunkum! -- Jesus Did Not Exist Say Hitchens and Morris -- Brian Morris Rejects the Historicity of Jesus -- The Biblically "Illiterate" Christopher Hitchens -- Scientist Peter Atkins Dismisses the Resurrection of Jesus -- Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? -- A Recommendation for Those Genuinely Seeking the Truth -- Peter Atkins' "Theism" -- The Atheism of the Alt-Right -- Chapter 6 -- Church and State - Separation or Cooperation? -- Australian Constitution Protects the Church from the State -- Totalitarian Temptations in Utopia -- Chapter 7 -- Élites Undermining Democracy: Judges, Politicians, Educators and Journalists -- Who makes the law? -- Who Governs Australia? -- Vocal Élites: "Fear the People!" -- Who is Responsible for Making Law? -- Judicial Activism in Australia? -- Politicians and the Media Exploit Religious Bigotry -- Chapter 8 -- The Attitude of Australian Citizens to Making RU486 Legally Available -- The Inalienable Right to Life: But Only for Some?. ; Defending Human Rights Post World War II -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) -- Universal Agreement on Basic Human Values -- Religion -- Consensus Gentium -- Agreement of the People -- The Human Failure to Honour Human Rights -- What Are "Inalienable Rights"? -- Empirical Evidence for Slippery Slopes -- Euthanasia as Practised Illegally in South Australia -- Research Evidence in Australia as a Whole -- Australian Surgeons and Euthanasia -- Extending the Boundaries for Euthanasia in the Netherlands -- Euthanasia in the Netherlands 1984-1990 -- Dutch Euthanasia Continues to Rise -- Pathway to Legal Medical Killings: Machiavellianism at Work in the Victoria State Task Force -- The Keown Critique of the Victorian Parliamentary Committee Report -- What about Other Australian Research? -- Victorian State Government Planned to Legalise Euthanasia -- The Right to Life Is an Inalienable Right -- Euthanasia Undermines Suicide Prevention Programmes -- Chapter 9 -- Belgium: Sliding Down the Euthanasia Slope -- Legal Control of Euthanasia -- Administration of a Lethal Dose without Explicit Request from the Patient -- Increase in Numbers of Cases of Euthanasia -- Widen the Scope: Euthanasia for Children -- Chapter 10 -- Eugenics -- Let's Start by Denying We Have a Problem -- Eugenics Persists Into the 21st Century -- A Brief History of the Eugenics Movement to the Present Time -- Population Planners are still at It -- The Enlightenment and the Perfectibility of Man -- Mid to Late 20th Century Eugenics and Onwards -- The Link Between Abortion and Eugenics -- A Glimpse at Future Eugenic Proposals for Utopia -- Denying the seriously disabled are human -- Linking Compassion with Killing -- Eugenics in Australia - Melbourne the Epicentre -- Connection between Eugenics and Voluntary Euthanasia in the Third Reich. ; From Eugenic Abortion to Infanticide to Euthanasia -- Philosophical "Beliefs" About When a Human Being Is a "Person": The Secularists' Weapon of Choice -- The Real Intentions of Proponents of Euthanasia -- Chapter 11 -- Power without Responsibility -- What are the Responsibilities of Members of Parliament Bearing on the Question of Euthanasia? -- Politicians, Pious Platitudes and the Secularist Ideology -- Have we forgotten Aboriginal persons and the Northern Territory experience? -- Euphemisms and Legislation -- Polls -- The Real Motives and Intentions of Euthanasia Advocates and Slippery Slopes: Invoking the Principle of Personal Autonomy to Annihilate Personal Autonomy -- In Short -- Entertainer Andrew Denton -- Andrew Denton's Philosophical Beliefs -- "We're the Land of Neighbours, Not Nazis" (Andrew Denton) -- The Law in Relation to Assisted Dying -- Weasel Words and Euphemisms Mask Reality -- Euphemisms Have Many Purposes but Mainly to Deceive -- TV Entertainer Andrew Denton Only Wants Legal "Assistance in Dying", Not Killing! -- Denton, Hard Cases and Palliative Care -- What is Palliative Care? -- The Painful Death of Kit Denton -- Transference -- The Case of Liz Le Noble -- Euthanasia and Hospice Care -- Denton's Atheistic Rant -- Essential Elements of Denton's Case -- Chapter 12 -- Remake the Culture! - Capture the Language! -- Moral Relativism - Incoherent and Dangerous -- Non-Judgementalism and Marriage "Equality" -- The Sexual Revolution -- Replacing "Sex" With "Gender" -- Intersex Persons -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3.
• Titolo autorizzato: To kill or not to kill
• ISBN: 1-5289-7055-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827198503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II