Abortion and infanticide / Michael Tooley.

By: Tooley, Michael, 1941-
Publisher: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, �1983Description: ix, 441 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0198246749; 9780198246749Subject(s): Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects | Infanticide -- Moral and ethical aspects | Abortion, Induced -- psychology | Infanticide -- psychology | Ethics | Abortion Ethical aspectsAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Abortion and infanticide.DDC classification: 179/.76 | 363.4/6 LOC classification: HQ767.3 | .T66 1983
Contents:
Part I. Philosophical background -- 1. Ethics, meta-ethics, and philosophical thinking -- Part II. Abortion -- 2. Abortion: introductory remarks -- 3. The relevance of the moral status of the foetus -- 4. Persons and human beings -- 5. The concept of a person -- 6. Potential persons -- 7. Possible persons -- 8. Moderate positions on abortion -- 9. A brief summary -- Part III. Infanticide -- 10. Present-day attitudes, and the historical and anthropological background -- 11. Objections to infanticide -- 12. Summary and conclusions.
Summary: The book has two main concerns. The first is to isolate the fundamental issues that must be resolved if one is to be able to formulate a defensible position on the question of the morality of abortion. The second is to determine the most plausible stand on those issues.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 426-433) and index.

Part I. Philosophical background -- 1. Ethics, meta-ethics, and philosophical thinking -- Part II. Abortion -- 2. Abortion: introductory remarks -- 3. The relevance of the moral status of the foetus -- 4. Persons and human beings -- 5. The concept of a person -- 6. Potential persons -- 7. Possible persons -- 8. Moderate positions on abortion -- 9. A brief summary -- Part III. Infanticide -- 10. Present-day attitudes, and the historical and anthropological background -- 11. Objections to infanticide -- 12. Summary and conclusions.

The book has two main concerns. The first is to isolate the fundamental issues that must be resolved if one is to be able to formulate a defensible position on the question of the morality of abortion. The second is to determine the most plausible stand on those issues.

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