Making Mortal Choices: Three Exercises in Moral Casuistry

by Hugo Bedau

Book Overview

The answer, to crew and passengers aboard the sinking lifeboat, must have seemed both grimly obvious and unthinkably alien. To save the lives of many, the lives of some would have to be sacrificed. With seawater crashing over the gunwhales, only a lightening of the human cargo would keep the craft afloat. In a procedure that took much of the night, fourteen men and two women were consigned to watery graves.
This notorious event, aftermath to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195108787
• ISBN13: 9780195108781
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"