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Valuing Life (Hardcover)
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Valuing Life (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, war, genetic engineering
and fetal experimentation, environmental and animal rights--these
topics inspire some of today's most heated public controversies.
And it is fashionable to pursue these debates in terms of the
negative query "Under what conditions may life be disregarded or
terminated?" John Kleinig asks a different, more positive question:
What may be said in behalf of life? Looking at the full range of
appeals to life's value, he considers a variety of issues. Is
livingness as such to be affirmed and respected? Is there an
ascending order of plant, animal, and human life? Does human life
possess a distinctive claim, or must we discriminate between humans
that do and humans that do not have claims on us? Kleinig shows
that assertions about valuing life camouflage a complex normative
vocabulary about worth, reverence, sanctity, dignity, respect, and
rights. And "life," too, is subject to an assortment of
understandings. Sensitive to the frameworks informing diverse
appeals to life's value, this comprehensive work will interest
readers concerned with the environment, animal rights, or
bioethics. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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