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Unprecedented advances in medicine, genetic engineering and demographic forecasting raise new questions of traditional ethical theories. Do potential people have rights? Can a child that is born handicapped sue the parents? Have people living in the present any moral obligation to future generations and populations, including the obligation to continue the race? This book is a systematic exposition of moral principles that can guide our decisions concerning the existence, number and identity of future people. David Heyd claims that potential people do not have moral status. Reproductive choices must therefore be guided only by the rational desires and values of those who already exist. Heyd's approach resolves many paradoxes in intergenerational justice, while offering a major test case for the profound problems of the limits of ethics and the nature of value.
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"[An] important book. . . . Heyd points out that as the human race gains increasing control over the number and identity of future people it loses normative criteria for making genethic decisions. This presents a theoretical challenge to ethics. . . . [The book includes] a very clear and interesting discussion of the difficulties encountered in any attempt to resolve genethical issues within the context of existing ethical frameworks."--Joanna Pasek, "The Philosophical Quarterly
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David Heyd is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Supererogation
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- PublisherUniversity of California Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0520089278
- ISBN 13 9780520089273
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages290
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. In Very Good+ condition. Signed by previous owner. Can a child sue its parents for having been born handicapped? Have people living in the present any moral obligation to future generations and populations, including the obligation to continue the race? Do potential people have rights? And if they do, is the right not to be born miserable of equal weight and status with the right to be born happy? Such question--as troubling as they are unavoidable in an age of unprecedented medical advances, genetic engineering, and demographic forecasting--strain the categories and assumptions of traditional ethical theories. In Genethics, David Heyd provides the first systematic exposition of moral principles on which to base decisions concerning the existence, number, and identity of future people. Challenging recent work by Derek Parfit and others, Heyd argues for a "person-affecting" theory of intergenerational justice, one that characterizes value by its effects on the interests and desires of human beings. Potential people, he claims, do not have moral status. Reproductive choices may therefore be guided only by reasons relating to the desires and ideals of those who already exist or of those who are going to exist independently of our choice. Heyd's approach resolves many paradoxes in intergenerational justice, while offering a major test case for the question of the limits of ethics. Seller Inventory # SKU2010026559
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