Just what is a human being? Who counts? The answers to these questions are crucial when one is faced with the ethical issue of taking human life. In this affirmation of the intrinsic personal dignity and inviolability of every human individual, John Kavanaugh, S. J., denies that it can ever be moral to intentionally kill another. Today, in every corner of the world, men and women are willing to kill others in the name of "realism" and under the guise of race, quality of life, sex, property, nationalism, security, or religion. We justify these killings by either excluding certain humans from our definition of personhood or by invoking a greater good or more pressing value. Kavanaugh contends that neither alternative is acceptable. He formulates an ethics that opposes the intentional killing not only of medically "marginal" humans but also of depersonalized or criminalized enemies. Offering a philosophy of the person that embraces the undeveloped, the wounded, and the dying, he proposes ways to recover a personal ethical stance in a global society that increasingly devalues the individual. Kavanaugh discusses the work of a range of philosophers, artists, and activists from Richard Rorty and Soren Kierkegaard to Albert Camus and Woody Allen, from Mother Teresa to Jack Kevorkian. His approach is in stark contrast to that of writer Peter Singer and others who believe that not all human life has intrinsic moral worth. It will challenge philosophers, students of ethics, and anyone concerned about the depersonalization of contemporary life.

Who Count As Persons?: Human Identity and the Ethics of Killing (Moral Traditions & Moral Arguments)

Politics & Social Sciences

Kavanaugh, John F.

Philosophy

Georgetown Univ Pr

Just what is a human being? Who counts? The answers to these questions are crucial when one is faced with the ethical issue of taking human life. In this affirmation of the intrinsic personal dignity and inviolability of every human individual, John Kavanaugh, S. J., denies that it can ever be moral to intentionally kill another. Today in every corner of the world men and women are willing to kill others in the name of "realism" and under the guise of race, class, quality of life, sex, property, nationalism, security, or religion. We justify these killings by either excluding certain humans from our definition of personhood or by invoking a greater good or more pressing value. Kavanaugh contends that neither alternative is acceptable. He formulates an ethics that opposes the intentional killing not only of medically "marginal" humans but also of depersonalized or criminalized enemies. Offering a philosophy of the person that embraces the undeveloped, the wounded, and the dying, he proposes ways to recover a personal ethical stance in a global society that increasingly devalues the individual. Kavanaugh discusses the work of a range of philosophers, artists, and activists from Richard Rorty and Søren Kierkegaard to Albert Camus and Woody Allen, from Mother Teresa to Jack Kevorkian. His approach is in stark contrast to that of writer Peter Singer and others who believe that not all human life has intrinsic moral worth. It will challenge philosophers, students of ethics, and anyone concerned about the depersonalization of contemporary life.

Who Count as Persons?: Human Identity and the Ethics of Killing (Moral Traditions)

Georgetown University Press

how christianity views a consumerist society

Following Christ in a Consumer Society: The Spirituality of Cultural Resistance

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Orbis Books

From Introduction - We offer this book as an attempt to face poverty in its various forms, to meet poverty in its multiple faces. Our many words, our many images, range over different realms of poverty. There is a negative material poverty which dehumanizes us. There is a positive material poverty, which humanizes us. There is a negative spiritual poverty of sin which degrades us. There is a positive spiritual poverty which ennobles us. (Description by http-mart)

Faces of Poverty, Faces of Christ

Puleo, Mev

Worship & Devotion

In an era of fraud, corruption, and the relentless celebration of image over substance, the message of this perennial best-seller is more timely than ever. Following Christ in a Consumer Society offers a penetrating critique of the culture of consumerism, contrasted with the personalism of the Gospel. Addressing a soul-destroying culture in which having more has become the only measure of value, Kavanaugh reminds us of the values that truly make us human. Through the counter-cultural message of the Gospel, his book presents a diagnosis of our social ills while at the same time providing a guide back to wholeness, sanity, and spiritual health

Book by Kavanaugh, John F., Werner, Donna J.

What's Ethics Got to Do with It?: The Role of Ethics in Undergraduate, Graduate and Professional Education at Saint Louis University

Werner, Donna J.

Saint Louis University Press

In these brief but penetrating meditations on the Sunday readings from Scripture, veteran homilist John Kavanaugh leads his readers on an unforgettable journey through the heart of the Christian gospel. Enlivened by many stories from his own life, his wide reading of literature, and his sharp insights into the contemporary world, Kavanaugh's reflections cover the whole of the lectionary readings for the B-cycle. In every season he provides us with spiritual food that is filling and varied. The great theme throughout The Word Encountered is the incarnation itself, the Word made flesh. In the encounter with the Word of God in Scripture, Kavanaugh challenges his readers to be truly open, to allow the Word to be born anew within our hearts and lives.

The Word Encountered: Meditations on the Sunday Scriptures

Continuing his acclaimed series of brief but penetrating meditations on the Sunday readings from Scripture, veteran homilist John Kavanaugh leads his readers on an unforgettable journey through the heart of the Christian gospel. Cycle C.

The Word Engaged: Meditations on the Sunday Scriptures Cycle C

Concluding his acclaimed series of brief but penetrating meditations on the Sunday readings from scripture, veteran homilist John Kavanaugh leads his readers on an unforgettable journey through the heart of the Christian gospel.

The Word Embodied: Meditations on the Sunday Scriptures Cycle A

In these brief but penetrating meditations on the Sunday readings from Scripture, veteran homilist John Kavanaugh leads his readers on an unforgettable journey through the heart of the Christian gospel. Enlivened by many stories from his own life, his wide reading of literature, and his sharp insights into the contemporary world, Kavanaugh's reflections cover the whole of the lectionary readings for the B-cycle. In every season, he provides us with spiritual food that is filling and varied. The great them throughout The Word Encountered is the incarnation itself, the Word made flesh. In the encounter with the Word of God in Scripture, Kavanaugh challenges his readers to be truly open, to allow the Word to be born anew within our hearts and lives.

The Word Engaged (3 Volume Set: Meditations on the Sunday Scriptures, B-Cycle

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Books by Kavanaugh, John F.

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Who Count As Persons?: Human Identity and the Ethics of Killing (Moral Traditions & Moral Arguments)

Who Count as Persons?: Human Identity and the Ethics of Killing (Moral Traditions)

Following Christ in a Consumer Society: The Spirituality of Cultural Resistance

Faces of Poverty, Faces of Christ

Following Christ in a Consumer Society: The Spirituality of Cultural Resistance

What's Ethics Got to Do with It?: The Role of Ethics in Undergraduate, Graduate and Professional Education at Saint Louis University

The Word Encountered: Meditations on the Sunday Scriptures

The Word Engaged: Meditations on the Sunday Scriptures Cycle C

The Word Embodied: Meditations on the Sunday Scriptures Cycle A

The Word Engaged (3 Volume Set: Meditations on the Sunday Scriptures, B-Cycle