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A 3 page research paper/essay that discusses the moral/ethical position of David Maguire, as expressed in his writing. The writer summarizes this ethicist's position and then presents a personal and contrasting view. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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contributors in order to take a scholarly look at "birth control and abortion from a variety of faith-based starting points" (Hunt 371). These scholars found that there are competing perspectives
within the context of every religion examined, which, surprisingly, includes the Catholic Church (Hunt 371). Catholic theologians, such as Christine Gudorf, offer "good Catholic reasons" for contraception, which pictures
Catholic birth control practice as being in a "state of development," rather than static, which is the official Vatican position (Hunt 371). Also, Islam would appear to be another case
where this issue is clear-cut, but Muslim Riffat Hassan offers a feminist challenge in Maguires text (Hunt 371). The text does not suggest that the reader should agree with the
positions offered or even that the reader should find these positions morally tolerable, as the point is to present the worlds divergence of views in a straightforward manner (Hunt 371).
Maguire is much more direct in expressing his views in some of this other writing, such as in his essay, "Sex and the Sacred." In this writing, Maguire argues
that the First Amendment has failed in its purpose "to ensure that public policy will not be made by alleged divine inspiration but by reasoned discourse" (Maguire 23). He bases
this argument on the fact federal policy on such issues as embryonic stem cell research has been decided along religious lines (Maguire 23). He goes on to discuss how the
religious stance of sex equating with sin, that is, the inability of Western culture to "face our sexuality" as responsible for much human misery and suffering (Maguire 23). In
discussing Maguires ethical philosophy, Charles Bouchard describes how Maguire demonstrates how "reason, both practical and speculative," as applied to the work of Thomas Aquinas, takes "intellectualism toward a holistic conception
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