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Ideas of James Rachels, by Text

[American, fl. 1985, Professor at the University of Alabama, at Birmingham.]

1971 God and Human Attributes
7 p.334 p.173 God must be fit for worship, but worship abandons morally autonomy, but there is no God [Davies,B]
1975 No Moral Difference
p.102 p.102 If it is desirable that a given patient die, then moral objections to killing them do not apply
p.97 p.97 It has become normal to consider passive euthanasia while condemning active euthanasia