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absolutism, moral
The view that certain kinds of actions are always wrong or are always obligatory, whatever the consequences. Typical candidates for such absolute principles would be that it is always wrong ...
acts and omissions
The moral distinction between acts and omissions amounts to the claim that there is a morally significant difference between a particular action and a corresponding failure to act, even though ...
autonomy in applied ethics
The concept of personal autonomy, used in a broad sense which goes beyond its Kantian origins, has been much invoked in recent writing on issues in applied ethics. It has ...
double effect
The doctrine of double effect is an exception to the general law of murder which recognises that the administration of medication to patients in the terminal phase of a terminal ...
euthanasia
Literally, a gentle, easy death. In modern usage, the means of achieving a gentle and easy death, with an implied suggestion that this can be facilitated by medical means.
Jonathan Francis Bennett
(1930– ).Historian of philosophy, philosopher of language, and metaphysician, noted for his work on Kant, Spinoza, and the British Empiricists, as well as on rationality, linguistic convention, ...
Jonathan Glover
(1941– ).Professor of Ethics at King's College London, formerly at Oxford, Glover has been a seminal figure in the emergence of ‘applied ethics’ as an area of vigorous philosophical inquiry. ...
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