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Paul Ramsey was one of the most influential American
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The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
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A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism#Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament....
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Ethicist

An ethicist is one whose judgment on ethics and ethical codes has come to be trusted by a specific community, and is expressed in some way that makes it possible for others to mimic or approximate that judgement....
s of the 20th century. He was a Methodist.








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Paul Ramsey was one of the most influential American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 Christian
Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism#Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament....
 ethicist
Ethicist

An ethicist is one whose judgment on ethics and ethical codes has come to be trusted by a specific community, and is expressed in some way that makes it possible for others to mimic or approximate that judgement....
s of the 20th century. He was a Methodist.

Bibliography

  • Basic Christian Ethics (1950)
  • War and the Christian Conscience: How Shall Modern War Be Conducted Justly? Durham, North Carolina 1961
  • Deeds and Rules in Christian Ethics, University of America Press 1967.
  • The Case of the Curious Exception in Gene Outka and Paul Ramsey eds. Norm and context in Christian Ethics, New York 1968.
  • The Just War: Force and Political Responsibility, New York 1968
  • Fabricated Man
  • Ethics at the Edges of Life
  • The Patient as Person. Explorations in medical ethics, (3)1973 New Haven, Connecticut
  • The Essential Paul Ramsey
  • Speak Up for Just War or Pacifism. A Critique of the United Methodist Bishops' Pastoral Letter "In Defense of Creation" Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988


Bibliography of Secondary Literature

  • Paul Ramsey's Ethics: The Power of 'Agape' in a Postmodern World (2000)


External links

  • The Birth of Bioethics: Who is Paul Ramsey? (Albert R. Jonsen, 2001 from the preface to the second edition of Paul Ramsey's ground breaking book The Patient as Person)