By Patrick Lee, Robert P. George
This publication treats the query of what a human individual is and the moral and political controversies of abortion, hedonism and drug-taking, euthanasia, and intercourse ethics. It defends the placement that people are either physique and soul, with a primary and morally very important distinction from different animals. It defends the normal place at the so much debatable particular ethical and political problems with the day.
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