Name: Moral Status: Obligations to Persons and Other Living Things (Issues in Biomedical Ethics) (en Inglés)
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Author: Mary Anne Warren
ISBN: 9780198250401

portada Moral Status: Obligations to Persons and Other Living Things (Issues in Biomedical Ethics) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Clarendon Press

Autor

Mary Anne Warren

Año

2000

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

274

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

0.75

ISBN

0198250401

ISBN13

9780198250401

N° edición

Categorías

Ética médica y conducta profesional

Moral Status: Obligations to Persons and Other Living Things (Issues in Biomedical Ethics) (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "Moral Status: Obligations to Persons and Other Living Things (Issues in Biomedical Ethics) (en Inglés)"

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