Contingent Future Persons On the Ethics of Deciding Who Will Live, or Not, in the Future
How ought we evaluate the individual and collective actions on which the existence, numbers and identities of future people depend? In the briefest of terms, this question poses what is addressed here as the problem of contingent future persons, and as such it poses relatively novel challenges for p...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1997, 1997
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1997 |
| Series: | Theology and Medicine
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- When Does Potentiality Count? A Comment on Lockwood
- Hare on Potentiality: A Rejoinder
- The Morality of Knowingly Conceiving Children with Serious Conditions: An Expanded “Wrongful Life” Standard
- Person-Affecting Principles and Beyond
- Divine Creation and Human Procreation: Reflections on Genesis in the Light of Genesis
- Deciding the Timing of Children: An Ethical Challenge Only Indirectly Addressed by the Christian Tradition
- Repugnant Thoughts about the Repugnant Conclusion Argument
- Person-Affecting Utilitarianism and Population Policy; Or, Sissy Jupe’s Theory of Social Choice
- Down to Earth Environmentalism: Sustainability and Future Persons
- More Than They Have a Right to: Future People and Our Future Oriented Projects
- Contingency, Community and Intergenerational Justice
- Bringing Embryos into Existence for Research Purposes
- Anticipating Posterity: A Lonerganian Approach to the Problem of Contingent Future Persons
- Notes on Contributors