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An eloquent attempt to clarify the abortion and euthanasia debates by seeking to articulate and analyze the unspoken assumptions underlying them. Ronald dworkin, who died this year, was one of the great legal philosophers of the modern era. It is a philosophical and constitutional analysis of the meaning of life. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read lifes dominion. In the advance praise printed on the dust jacket the president of the american civil liberties union, nadine strossen, describes the work as careful, clear, pathbreaking, and stunningly insightful, susan sontag says it is. This acclaimed book by ronald dworkin is available at in several formats for your ereader. An argument about abortion, euthanasia, and individual freedomthat emphasizes respect for autonomy as the solution to the lifeanddeath dilemmas of abortion and euthanasia. Ronald myles dworkin, 193120, american legal philosopher. Lifes dominioni is not only per its subtitle an argument about abortion, euthanasia, and individual freedom. And he did indeed spend the rest of his life debating, and defending his. The publication of lifes dominion could not have been more timely. An argument about abortion, euthanasia, and individual freedom new york. In lifes dominion, dworkin 1993, 236 emphasizes the notion of.
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