Contents; ONE: Seaman Holmes and the Sinking of the William Brown; TWO: The Speluncean Explorers and the Death of Roger Whetmore; THREE: Jim and the Indians in the Jungle Clearing; APPENDIX: The Historical Background of Casuistry; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
Summary
This text examines the usefulness of "casuistry", or "the method of cases" in arriving at moral decisions. It seeks to teach something about how we actually reason concerning life and death situations, and how we ought to reason if we wish both to be consistent and properly respect human life
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-118) and index
