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Reflections on life, death, and the constitution [[electronic resource] /] / George Anastaplo
| Reflections on life, death, and the constitution [[electronic resource] /] / George Anastaplo |
| Autore | Anastaplo George <1925-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lexington, Ky., : University Press of Kentucky, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina | 340/.112 |
| Soggetto topico |
Law - Philosophy
Constitutional law - United States Law and ethics Right to die - Law and legislation - United States Capital punishment - United States Abortion - Law and legislation - United States |
| ISBN |
0-8131-9230-7
0-8131-3524-9 1-283-23344-4 9786613233448 0-8131-7327-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. On Understanding the Others; 2. Life and Not-Life in Thucydides' Funeral Orations; 3. Death and Resurrection in Euripides' Bacchae; 4. Resurrection and Death in Everyman; 5. John Milton and the Limits of the Garden of Edene; 6. Human Mortality and the Declaration of Independence; 7. Time and the Constitution; 8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the Modern Project; 9. Public Health and Private Consciences; 10. The Flag Salute Cases (1940, 1943); 11. Conscientious Objectors and Military Conscription
12. Obliteration Bombing, Civilian Casualties, and the Laws of War 13. Do All Somehow Aim at the Good?; 1. Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Elusiveness of the Good; 2. Unconventional Religious Duties and the Good Life; 3. Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) and the Prevention of Conception; 4. Roe v. Wade (1973) and the Law of Abortion; 5. Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) and the Persistence of the Abortion Issue; 6. Capital Punishment and the United States Supreme Court; 7. Capital Punishment Reconsidered; 8. Nancy Cruzan and ""The Right to Die"" 9. Washington v. Glucksberg (1997) and Assisted Suicide 10. The Legislation of Morality and the Problem of Pain; 11. Evolution and the Law; 12. Life and Death in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; 13. The Unseemly Fearfulness of Our Time; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Appendix E; Appendix F; Appendix G; Appendix H; Appendix I; Appendix J; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811854003321 |
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