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... human species with which it has evolved rather than the relationship between the aims of actual people and their ability to achieve them.95 24 Hugh Iltis , Orie Loucks , and Peter Andrews , " Criteria for an Optimum Human Environment ...
... human species with which it has evolved rather than the relationship between the aims of actual people and their ability to achieve them.95 24 Hugh Iltis , Orie Loucks , and Peter Andrews , " Criteria for an Optimum Human Environment ...
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... human action . Common to all ethics is the assumption that the human act is performed within the human condition . Since the various ethical systems assumed , tacitly or explicitly , that this human condition was more or less given ...
... human action . Common to all ethics is the assumption that the human act is performed within the human condition . Since the various ethical systems assumed , tacitly or explicitly , that this human condition was more or less given ...
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... human life " is considered an infinitely elastic concept . Is it possible , without restoring the category of the sacred , to attain the ethics that alone would en- able mankind to accept the rigorous discipline of this new imperative ...
... human life " is considered an infinitely elastic concept . Is it possible , without restoring the category of the sacred , to attain the ethics that alone would en- able mankind to accept the rigorous discipline of this new imperative ...
Contents
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 31 |
Introduction | 121 |
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