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Ethics at the Beginning of Life - A phenomenological critique (Paperback)
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Ethics at the Beginning of Life - A phenomenological critique (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics
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Many of the most controversial moral decisions we face hinge upon
competing descriptions of life, and never is this truer than at the
beginning of life. James Mumford draws upon phenomenology (a branch
of continental philosophy) to question the descriptive adequacy,
the essential 'purchase upon reality', of many of the approaches,
attitudes and arguments which make up beginning of life ethics
today. He argues that many of the most prevalent positions and
practices in our late modern culture have simply failed to take
into account the reality of human emergence, the particular way
that new members of our species first appear in the world.
Historically, phenomenologists have been far more interested in
death than in birth. Mumford therefore first develops his own
phenomenological investigation of human emergence, taking leads and
developing approaches from phenomenologists both French and German,
both living and dead. In the second half of the book phenomenology
is finally applied to ethics, and acute moral questions are divided
into two kinds: first those concerning 'what' it is that we are
dealing; and, secondly, the more contextual 'where' questions
relating to the situation in which the subject is found. Finally,
although this book primarily constitutes a philosophical rather
than a religious critique of contemporary ethics, with the findings
from continental philosophy being brought to bear upon core
convictions of English-speaking 'liberal' moral and political
philosophers, Mumford concludes by exploring an alternative
theological basis for human rights which might fill the vacuum
created.
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