LIBROS DEL AUTOR: peter kurti

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  • Beyond Belief - Rethinking the Voice to Parliament
    Peter Kurti
    In Beyond Belief: Rethinking the Voice to Parliament, twelve distinguished Australians set out their reasons why we need to question the wisdom of enshrining a Voice to parliament by amending the Constitution.Some of these reasons are legal, political and constitutional; but others express concern that constitutional amendment will do nothing to address the social disadvantage ...
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  • EUTHANASIA
    Peter Kurti
    'The common good of the community will be harmed if killing by assisted suicide wins acceptance.''If individual freedom entitles a sick person in pain to assisted suicide, how can it be denied to someone wishing to die who is not sick and in pain?' Euthanasia and assisted suicide are sweeping across Australia as one State after another passes laws permitting doctors to kill pat...
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    24,92 €

  • SACRED & PROFANE
    Peter Kurti
    Sacred and Profane is a clear reminder that modern democratic government is distinguished by robust capacity in fostering cohesion amidst diversity. The secular character of such government, however, poses particular questions in ensuring that citizens with religious beliefs are as free as others to participate in debates about public policy and law. Peter Kurti’s lucid essays ...
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    31,38 €

  • EUTHANASIA
    Peter Kurti
    Mounting pressure to legalise assisted suicide and euthanasia is a one-way ratchet asserting the primacy of individual choice. Euthanasia advocates insist nothing can ever outweigh that choice.But in this book, Peter Kurti argues these demands need to be resisted because of the impact individual choice about assisted suicide will have on wider society — on the family, on friend...
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    16,20 €

  • The Tyranny of Tolerance
    Peter Kurti
    It was a confident expectation for more than a century that religion — its beliefs, doctrines and institutions — would atrophy in the face of growing secularisation. But not only has traditional Christianity survived in liberal western societies; other faiths, most conspicuously Islam, have increasingly become a perceptible presence. This evolution gives rise to many questions ...
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    24,51 €