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The Ethics of Self-Sacrifice

From the March 1999 Print Edition

If I were to say that the highest imaginable exemplification of the good consists in dying sacrificially on behalf of an other or others, I imagine that many people, religious or otherwise, would concur. And in some recent ethical thinking, this understanding of the highest good has been given a . . . . Continue Reading »