Harming Future Persons Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Roberts, Melinda A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Wasserman, David T. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Σειρά: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 35
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Human genetics.; Ethics.; Law > Philosophy.; Law.; Medical laws and legislation.; Constitutional law.; Sociology.; Sociology, general.; Human Genetics.; Constitutional Law.; Medical Law.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

This collection of essays investigates the obligations we have in respect of future persons, from our own future offspring to distant future generations. Can we harm them? Can we wrong them? Can the fact that our choice brings a worse off person into existence in place of a better off but "noni...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Can Bringing a Person into Existence Harm That Person? Can an Act That Harms No One Be Wrong?
• The Intractability of the Nonidentity Problem
• If Bringing a Badly Off Person into Existence is Wrong, is Not Bringing aWell Off Person into Existence Also Wrong?
• Rights and the Asymmetry Between Creating Good and Bad Lives
• Asymmetries in the Morality of Causing People to Exist
• Must an Act Worse for People be Worse for a Particular Person?
• Who Cares About Identity?
• Do Future Persons Presently Have Alternate Possible Identities?
• Rule Consequentialism and Non-identity
• Is the Argument to “No Harm Done” Correct? Must an Act that Harms a Person Make that Person Worse Off?
• Harming as Causing Harm
• Wrongful Life and Procreative Decisions
• Harming and Procreating
• The Nonidentity Problem and the Two Envelope Problem: When is One Act Better for a Person than Another?
• Is the Morality of Parental Reproductive Choice Special? Can Intentions and Attitudes Make an Act that Harms No One Wrong?
• Reproduction, Partiality, and the Non-identity Problem
• Two Varieties of “Better-For” Judgements
• Harms to Future People and Procreative Intentions
• Is the Person Affecting Approach Objectionable Independent of the Nonidentity Problem?
• Can the Person Affecting Restriction Solve the Problems in Population Ethics?
• What are the Implications of the Nonidentity Problem for Law and Public Policy?
• Implications of the Nonidentity Problem for State Regulation of Reproductive Liberty
• Reparations for U.S. Slavery and Justice Over Time.