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Procreative Ethics - Philosophical and Christian Approaches to Questions at the Beginning of Life (Paperback)
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Procreative Ethics - Philosophical and Christian Approaches to Questions at the Beginning of Life (Paperback)
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Description: Procreative Ethics addresses questions at the
beginning of life from a point of view that is alternatively
philosophical and Christian. The author seeks to defend
philosophically some positions taken partly on Christian grounds
while also trying to make the implications of Christian convictions
intelligible to those who do not necessarily share those
convictions. The author positions himself neither as a ""moral
friend"" nor ""moral stranger,"" preferring instead the role of
""moral acquaintance"" to his audience. From that position, the
goal is to find areas of fruitful agreement while clarifying
differences that may lead to truer reconciliations further on in
the conversation. The book opens with an attempted natural law
defense of artificial contraception; devotes four chapters to
criticism of current defenses of abortion; and then takes up, in
six remaining chapters, such matters as genetic enhancement of
children, the justice or injustice of genetic revision, the harm
conundrum or non-identity problem, designing for disability, and
reproductive cloning. Endorsements: ""Fritz Oehlschlaeger has
written a remarkable book that needs to be read by everyone with a
stake in moral questions at life's beginning. Displaying
theological and philosophical sophistication as well as a profound
wisdom, these arguments must be taken seriously by those who agree
with Oeschlaeger as well as those who do not."" --Joel James Shuman
King's College ""Writing with a modesty that betrays the depth of
argument that characterizes Procreative Ethics, Fritz Oehlschlaeger
has written the most important book in bioethics in recent memory.
Bioethics has long suffered from a stale imagination.
Oehlschlaeger, an acknowledged outsider to the eld, brings to his
work a fresh imagination shaped by literary texts and a profound
humanity. Hopefully many will want to emulate his work in other
areas of bioethics."" --Stanley Hauerwas Duke University ""In this
new book Fritz Oehlschlaeger has made masterful and persuasive
arguments about the moral challenges looming at the beginning of
human life. And he does this as a highly informed
non-specialist--an English professor no less "" --Robert Benne
Roanoke College About the Contributor(s): Fritz Oehlschlaeger is
Professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University. He is co-author of Articulating the Elephant Man:
Joseph Merrick and His Interpreters (1992) and Love and Good
Reasons: Postliberal Approaches to Christian Ethics and Literature
(2003).
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