Front cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. On Understanding the Others -- 2. Life and Not-Life in Thucydides' Funeral Orations -- 3. Death and Resurrection in Euripides' Bacchae -- 4. Ressurection and Death in Everyman -- 5. John Milton and the Limits of the Garden of Edene -- 6. Human Mortality and the Declaration of Independence -- 7. Time and the Constitution -- 8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the Modern Project -- 9. Public Health and Private Consciences -- 10. The Flag Salute Cases (1940, 1943) -- 11. Conscientious Objectors and Military Conscription -- 12. Obliteration Bombing, Civilian Casualties, and the Laws of War -- 13. Do All Somehow Aim at the Good? -- 1. Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Elusiveness of the Good -- 2. Unconventional Religious Duties and the Good Life -- 3. Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) and the Prevention of Conception -- 4. Roe v. Wade (1973) and the Law of Abortion -- 5. Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) and the Persistence of the Abortion Issue -- 6. Capital Punishment and the United States Supreme Court -- 7. Capital Punishment Reconsidered -- 8. Nancy Cruzan and "The Right to Die" -- 9. Washington v. Glucksberg (1997) and Assisted Suicide -- 10. The Legislation of Morality and the Problem of Pain -- 11. Evolution and the Law -- 12. Life and Death in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address -- 13. The Unseemly Fearfulness of Our Time -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Appendix E -- Appendix F -- Appendix G -- Appendix H -- Appendix I -- Appendix J -- Index.