Ethics at the Beginning of Life
A phenomenological critique
Series: Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 June 2015
- ISBN 9780198745051
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages228 pages
- Size 217x140x13 mm
- Weight 290 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Many declare the debate about abortion to be hopelessly polarised, between conservatives and liberals, between forces religious and secular. In this book Mumford upends this received wisdom and challenges consensus, arguing that many dominant attitudes and argument fail to take into account the particular way human beings 'emerge' in the world.
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Many of the most controversial moral decisions we face hinge upon competing descriptions of life, and never is this truer than at the beginning of life. James Mumford draws upon phenomenology (a branch of continental philosophy) to question the descriptive adequacy, the essential 'purchase upon reality', of many of the approaches, attitudes and arguments which make up beginning of life ethics today. He argues that many of the most prevalent positions and practices in our late modern culture have simply failed to take into account the reality of human emergence, the particular way that new members of our species first appear in the world.
Historically, phenomenologists have been far more interested in death than in birth. Mumford therefore first develops his own phenomenological investigation of human emergence, taking leads and developing approaches from phenomenologists both French and German, both living and dead. In the second half of the book phenomenology is finally applied to ethics, and acute moral questions are divided into two kinds: first those concerning 'what' it is that we are dealing; and, secondly, the more contextual 'where' questions relating to the situation in which the subject is found.
Finally, although this book primarily constitutes a philosophical rather than a religious critique of contemporary ethics, with the findings from continental philosophy being brought to bear upon core convictions of English-speaking 'liberal' moral and political philosophers, Mumford concludes by exploring an alternative theological basis for human rights which might fill the vacuum created.
Unusually perceptive and helpful. To read his argument with care is to have ones judgment sharpened and illumined ... This is a work of serious philosophical argument, well worth our taking seriously
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I
Phenomenology and Human Emergence
Encounters Idealised
Context Neglected
II
Grounds for Recognition
Justifications of Force
III
An Alternative Basis for Human Rights
