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An African Ethics of Personhood and Bioethics - A Reflection on Abortion and Euthanasia (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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An African Ethics of Personhood and Bioethics - A Reflection on Abortion and Euthanasia (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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This book articulates an African conception of dignity in light of
the salient axiological category of personhood in African cultures.
The idea of personhood embodies a moral system for evaluating human
lives exuding with virtue or ones that are morally excellent. This
book argues that this idea of personhood embodies an under-explored
conception of dignity, which accounts for it in terms of our
capacity for the virtue of sympathy. It then proceeds to apply this
personhood-based conception of dignity to bioethical questions,
specifically, those of abortion and euthanasia. Regarding abortion,
it concludes that it is impermissible since foetuses possess
partial moral status. Regarding euthanasia, it argues that it is
permissible for reasons revolving around avoiding the reversing of
personhood. It also, though, minimally, touches on the questions
regarding the mentally disabled and animals, to which it assigns
lower moral status.
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