Making Mortal Choices Three Exercises in

Bedau demonstrates the usefulness of 'casuistry', or 'the method of cases' in arriving at moral decisions. He examines well-known cases that compel us to consider questions about who ought to survive when not all can. By doing so, we learn something about how we actually reason concerning such life and death situations, as well as about how we ought to reason if we wish both to be consistent and properly respect human life.

Hugo Adam Bedau is Austin Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University

ONE Seaman Holmes and the Sinking of the William Brown

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TWO The Speluncean Explorers and the Death of Roger Whetmore

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THREE Jim and the Indians in the Jungle Clearing

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APPENDIX The Historical Background of Casuistry

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Notes

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Index

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Making Mortal Choices Three Exercises in Moral Casuistry

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