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Battin, Margaret P. | Contributions of aesthetics | The most tempting answer to the question posed as the topic for these remarks -- "what can aesthetics contribute to a young person's ability to understand and value art?" -- is "nothing", or, at least, "embarrassingly little". Aesthetics, after all, is a field of philosophy, and hence a field dedi... | | 1988 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Letter to the editor why the slippery slope isn't slippery: a reply to Walter M. Weber on the right to die | Walter M. Weber's remarks present a brief but revealing exposition of the right-to-life argument against legal recognition of the "right to die." I say "revealing" because while these remarks p[resent the conservative view perhaps as clearly as it has been set forth so far, they exhibit particularly... | | 1988 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Rational self-sufficiency and Greek ethics. | This is a book review of Martha C. Nussbaum's The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy; (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986). | Ethics; Moral Philosophy;; Book reviews | 1988 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Review of J. Annas and J. Barnes, 'The modes of scepticism' | This is a review of Julia Annas and Jonathan Barnes book, The Modes of Scepticism: Ancient Texts and Modern Interpretations. This book contains translations of material from Philo of Alexandria, Diogenes Laertius, and Sextus Empiricus concerning the ancient 'modes' or 'tropes' of skeptical argument... | Skepticism; Book review; Tropes (Philosophy;) | 1988 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Review of Suzanne Mansion, 'Etudes Aristoteliciennes: receuils d'articles | This volume is a posthumous collection of articles, all previously published and almost all on Aristotle, by Suzanne Mansion, along with a list of her scholarly works (xviiixxi). The articles printed here are reproduced photographically along with their original pagination, and a continuous paginati... | Aristotle; Plato; Ancient Philosophy | 1988 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Textbook of healthcare ethics | Loewy's Textbook of Healthcare Ethics is one of the very few books that is better than its title. It is a textbook; it does address ethics; and it does survey a broad range of issues in health care. Of course it includes the usual theoretical rubrics like autonomy and responsibility, physician/patie... | | 1988 |
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Francis, Leslie | Virtue and the American family: abortion and divorce in Western law by Mary Ann Glendon | Abortion and Divorce in Western Law is seductive and dangerous. It is seductive because it is half right; it is dangerous because it is half wrong on many levels: the data assembled about abortion law, the comparative law methodology employed, and the conclusions drawn for American public policy abo... | Abortion and divorce in American law; Book review; Glendon, Mary Ann | 1988 |