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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 March 2000
- ISBN 9780198250401
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages274 pages
- Size 216x139x15 mm
- Weight 370 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Mary Anne Warren investigates a theoretical question that is at the centre of practical and professional ethics: what are the criteria for having moral status? That is: what does it take to be an entity towards which people have moral considerations? Warren argues that no single property will do as a sole criterion, and puts forward seven basic principles which establish moral status. She then applies these principles to three controversial moral issues: voluntary euthanasia, abortion, and the status of non-human animals.
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Mary Anne Warren explores a theoretical question which lies at the heart of practical ethics: what are the criteria for having moral status? In other words, what are the criteria for being an entity towards which people have moral obligations? Some philosophers maintain that there is one intrinsic property--for instance, life, sentience, humanity, or moral agency. Others believe that relational properties, such as belonging to a human community, are more important. In Part I of the book, Warren argues that no single property can serve as the sole criterion for moral status; instead, life, sentience, moral agency, and social and biotic relationships are all relevant, each in a different way. She presents seven basic principles, each focusing on a property that can, in combination with others, legitimately affect an agent's moral obligations towards entities of a given type. In Part II, these principles are applied in an examination of three controversial ethical issues: voluntary euthanasia, abortion
This book is well written, synoptic in its coverage of existing theories of moral status, and most useful for a beginning Contemporary Moral Problems or Medical Ethics class.
Table of Contents:
Part I: An Account of Moral Status. 1. The Concept of Moral Status; 2. Reverence for Life; 3. Sentience and the Utilitarian Calculus; 4. Personhood and Moral Rights; 5. The Relevance of Relationships; 6. A Multi-Criterial Analysis of Moral Status. Part II: Selected Applications. 7. Applying the Principles; 8. Euthanasia and the Moral Status of Human Beings; 9. Abortion and Human Rights; 10. Animal Rights and Human Limitations; 11. Conclusion. Bibliography; Index.
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