Identity, Potential and Design : How They Impact the Debate Over the Morality of Abortion

Language: English

Published by AV Akademikerverlag, 2012

3639438647 / 9783639438642

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Revision with unchanged content. Identity, Potential and Design addresses the metaphysics of personal identity and the question of the moral permissibility of abortion. This book begins by discussing personal identity, arguing that a generally-Thomistic hylomorphic approach is most acceptable. It then moves to a discussion of the moral significance of potentiality, arguing that certain types of potentiality carry with them the same rights to protection as possessed by those individuals who have manifest these traits. It then examines the concept of health, arguing that appeals to species-norms are not helpful in determining health, proper function, or moral status, and thus arguing that we must appeal to divine design to salvage commonsense ethics. Finally, it addresses the issue of the degree of sacrifice required to live a moral life, concluding that when another person will certainly die if I do not make some sacrifice to sustain his or her life, I am required to sacrifice up to just short of my own life to save his or her life. Identity, Potential and Design comes to the ultimate conclusion that abortion is always morally wrong.…

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Title
Identity, Potential and Design : How They Impact the Debate Over the Morality of Abortion
Author
Todd S. Bindig
Publisher
AV Akademikerverlag
Publication year
2012
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Neu
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Taschenbuch
Language
English
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3639438647
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9783639438642
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280 grams
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220x150x12 mm

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