Paul Ramsey (ethicist)
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| Paul Ramsey | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1913 |
| Died | 1988 |
| Nationality | American |
| Religion | Protestant |
Robert Paul Ramsey (December 10, 1913 – February 29, 1988[1]) was an American Christian ethicist of the 20th century. He was a Methodist and a native of Mississippi. He graduated from Millsaps College in Mississippi and Yale University.
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[edit] Life
Paul Ramsey undertook his doctoral studies at Yale where he was mentored by H. Richard Niebuhr.[2] He subsequently taught Christian Ethics at Princeton. He has been credited with re-introducing just war theory into Protestant ethical reflection.[3] His popular text book Basic Christian Ethics was reviewed by a young John Rawls.[4]
[edit] Bibliography
- Basic Christian Ethics (1950) [5]
- War and the Christian Conscience: How Shall Modern War Be Conducted Justly? Durham, North Carolina 1961
- Nine Modern Moralists, Prentice-Hall,Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 1962
- 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
- The Ethics of Fetal Research, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975.
- Ethics at the Edges of Life
- The Patient as Person. Explorations in medical ethics, (3)1973 New Haven, Connecticut [6]
- The Essential Paul Ramsey [7]
- 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
[edit] Bibliography of Secondary Literature
- Paul Ramsey's Ethics: The Power of 'Agape' in a Postmodern World (2000) [8]
- Carnahan, Kevin. Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Ramsey: Idealist and Pragmatic Christians on Politics, Philosophy, Religion, and War (2010)
[edit] References
- ^ "Register of the Paul Ramsey Papers, 1934-1984 and undated". Duke University. http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/rbmscl/ramsey/inv/. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
- ^ Biographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians (London: Greenwood Press, 2000), p387
- ^ "Obituary by Oliver O'Donovan". Studies in Christian Ethics. http://sce.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/1/1/82. Retrieved February 14, 2010.
- ^ "Before the Original Position: the Neo-Orthodox Theology of a young John Rawls". by Eric Gregory Journal of Religious Ethics 35.2 (2007).
- ^ "Basic Christian Ethics". http://books.google.com/books?id=aYNeQx-8-2QC&dq=Basic+Christian+Ethics&pg=PP1&ots=hcb2N4fk3d&source=bn&sig=PtPAVp5Im62PQN3tAsaQ1qLSemw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result.
- ^ "The Patient as Person". http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300093964.
- ^ "The Essential Paul Ramsey". http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300058154.
- ^ "Paul Ramsey's Ethics". http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C6988.aspx.
[edit] 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) [1]
- NYTimes Obituary of Paul Ramsey
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