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Intention and identity: Collected essays: Volume II

Finnis

Intention and identity: Collected essays: Volume II - Oxford Oxford University Press 2011 - 303p XI

Contents;
Introduction;
Part One Nature and Freedom in Personal Identity;
1 The Priority of Persons;
2 Personal Identity in Aquinas and Shakespeare;
3 Anscombe on Spirit and Intention;
Part Two Group Identity and Group Acts;
4 Purposes, Public Acts, and Personification;
5 Persons and Their Associations;
6 Law, Universality, and Social Identity;
7 Cosmopolis, Nation States, and Families;
Part Three Acts and Intentions;
8 Human Acts;
9 Intentions and Objects;
10 Intention and Side Effects;
11 Intention in Tort Law;
12 Conditional and Preparatory Intentions;
13 ‘Direct’ and ‘Indirect’ in Action;
14 Intention in Direct Discrimination;
Part Four Persons Beginning and Dying;
15 Organic Unity, Brain Life, and Our Beginning;
16 When Most People Begin;
17 On Producing Human Embryos;
18 Brain Death and Peter Singer;
19 Intentionally Killing the ‘Permanently Unconscious’;
End Matter.







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1. Law - Philosophy2. Religion & Law3. Intentionality - Philosophy4. Identity - Philosophical Concept

340.112 / FIN - II