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Bedau, Hugo Adam was born on September 23, 1926 in Portland, Oregon, United States. Son of Hugo Adam and Laura (Romeis) Bedau.
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The answer, to crew and passengers aboard the sinking lifeboat, must have seemed both grimly obvious and unthinkably alien. To save the lives of many, the lives of some would have to be sacrificed. With seawater crashing over the gunwhales, only a lightening of the human cargo would keep the craft afloat. In a procedure that took much of the night, fourteen men and two women were consigned to watery graves. This notorious event, aftermath to the sinking of the William Brown in 1841, represents a shocking example of life and death decision-making, a case where cruel circumstance would seem to argue the permissibility of taking innocent human life. In Making Mortal Choices, philosopher Hugo Bedau examines this case as well as two similar cases of hypothetical origin, generating a remarkably clear and accessible demonstration of philosophical reasoning in cases where it must be decided who ought to survive when not all can. Bedau's approach, a form of practical ethics descended from the ancient (and oft-misunderstood) method of casuistry, involves solving complex moral problems in careful analytic increments and only after a broad canvassing of possibilities, rather than through the top-down application of some general moral theory or principle. Aimed at both general readers and philosophers interested in the revival of casuistic method, Making Mortal Choices illuminates not only how we reason in life and death situations, but also how we ought to reason if we wish both to be consistent and to properly respect human life.
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One of the most respected (and ardent) opponents of the death penalty collects his highly acclaimed essays on capital punishment.
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The issues surrounding civil disobedience have been discussed since at least 399 BC and, in the wake of such recent events as the protest at Tiananmen Square, are still of great relevance. By presenting classic and current philosophical reflections on the issues, this book presents all the basic materials needed for a philosophical assessment of the nature and justification of civil disobedience. The pieces included range from classic essays by leading contemporary thinkers such as Rawls, Raz and Singer. Hugo Adam Bedau's introduction sets out the issues and shows how the various authors shed light on each aspect of them.
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Bedau, Hugo Adam was born on September 23, 1926 in Portland, Oregon, United States. Son of Hugo Adam and Laura (Romeis) Bedau.
Student, University Southern California, 1944-1945; Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude, U. Redlands, 1949; Master of Arts, Boston University, 1951; Master of Arts, Harvard, 1953; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1961.
Instructor, Dartmouth, 1953-1954;
instructor, Princeton, 1954-1957;
lecturer, Princeton, 1958-1961;
associate professor, Reed College, 1962-1966;
professor philosophy, Tufts U., 1966-1972;
Austin Fletcher professor philosophy, Tufts U., since 1972;
Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa professor philosophy, Tufts U., 1994-1995. Visiting professor law faculty U. Natal, South Africa, 1981, U. Westminster, London, 1994. Visiting life fellow Clare Hall, Cambridge U., 1980.
Visiting fellow Wolfson College, Oxford, 1988. Honorary research fellow Bentham Project, U. London, since 1997.
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Board directors American League to Abolish Capital Punishment, 1959—1972, president, 1969—1972. Board directors American Civil Liberties Union, Massachusetts, 1984—1987, 1988—1993, 1995—1998, vice president, 1987. Chairman National Coalition Against Death Penalty, 1990—1993.
Member American Philosophical Association, American Association of University Professors, American Society Political and Legal Philosophy (vice president 1981), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Jan Lisbeth Peterson Mastin, 1952 (divorced 1988). Children— Lauren, Mark Adam, Paul Hugo, Guy Antony. Married Constance Elizabeth Putnam, 1990.