Procreative Ethics: Philosophical and Christian Approaches to Questions at the Beginning of Life - Couverture rigide

Oehlschlaeger, Fritz

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1498211445 ISBN 13 : 9781498211444

Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

Procreative Ethics addresses questions at the beginning of life from a point of view that is alternatively philosophical and Christian. The author seeks to defend philosophically some positions taken partly on Christian grounds while also trying to make the implications of Christian convictions intelligible to those who do not necessarily share those convictions. The author positions himself neither as a "moral friend" nor "moral stranger," preferring instead the role of "moral acquaintance" to his audience. From that position, the goal is to find areas of fruitful agreement while clarifying differences that may lead to truer reconciliations further on in the conversation. The book opens with an attempted natural law defense of artificial contraception; devotes four chapters to criticism of current defenses of abortion; and then takes up, in six remaining chapters, such matters as genetic enhancement of children, the justice or injustice of genetic revision, the harm conundrum or non-identity problem, designing for disability, and reproductive cloning.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Fritz Oehlschlaeger is Professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is co-author of Articulating the Elephant Man: Joseph Merrick and His Interpreters (1992) and Love and Good Reasons: Postliberal Approaches to Christian Ethics and Literature (2003).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498211445
• ISBN 13: 9781498211444
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 380
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• Personne responsable: non disponible