Paul Ramsey
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Paul Ramsey (December 10, 1913 - February 29, 1988) was a professor of religion and a scholar of ethics, applied ethics, bio-ethics, medical ethics, Just War Theory, and Christian Ethics. Achieving prominence through his pioneering work in medical ethics, he wrote extensively about Christianity and its application to varied topics, reaching far beyond the borders of his native Methodist beliefs. His philosophy was extremely eclectic and drew from both Protestant as well as Catholic theology. He was strongly influenced by John Calvin and Martin Luther.
He was born in Mendenhall, Mississippi and earned his B.A. from Millsaps College in 1935. He served on the Millsaps faculty from 1937 to 1939 and taught history and social sciences. Later he went on to earn his Ph.D. from Yale University Divinity School in the early 1940s. He secured a position at Princeton University and taught there until his death, by heart attack, in 1988.
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Selected books by Paul Ramsey
- Basic Christian Ethics (1950) ISBN 0664253245
- The Patient as Person (1970) ISBN 0300093969
- Fabricated Man: The Ethics of Genetic Control (1970) ISBN 0300013744
- The ethics of fetal research (A Yale fastback) (1975) ISBN 0300018797
- Deeds and Rules in Christian Ethics (1976) ISBN
- Ethics at the Legal Edges of Life (1980) ISBN 0300021410
- War and the Christian Conscience (1985) ISBN 0822303612
- Faith and Ethics: The Theology of H. Richard Niebuhr (1986) ISBN 084462778X
- Speak up for Just War or Pacifism (1988) ISBN 0271006390
- The Just War: Force and Political Responsibility (1992) ISBN 0742522326
Books about Paul Ramsey
- The Essential Paul Ramsey (1994) ISBN 0300058152
- Tragedy, Tradition, Transformism: The Ethics of Paul Ramsey (1993) ISBN 0813387477
- Paul Ramsey's Ethics: The Power of 'Agape' in a Postmodern World (2000) ISBN 0275969886
See Also
- Just War Theory
- Medical Ethics
- Organ Donation
- List of philosophers
- Michael Walzer
- James Turner Johnson
Sources & external links
- Center for Bioethics and Culture: Who is Paul Ramsey? (http://www.thecbc.org/redesigned/research_display.php?id=190|The)
- Paul Ramsey Collection of Applied Ethics at Millsasps College (http://library.millsaps.edu/library/administration/special.shtml#ramsey|The)
