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The overturning of Roe v Wade makes the ethical consideration of
abortion more important than ever. Appealing to reason rather than
religious belief, this book is the most comprehensive case against
the choice of abortion yet published. This third edition of The
Ethics of Abortion critically evaluates all the major grounds for
denying basic rights to fetal human beings, including the views of
those who defend not only abortion but also post-birth abortion. It
also provides several (non-theological) justifications for the
conclusion that all human beings, including those in utero, should
be respected as persons. This book also critiques the view that
abortion is not wrong even if the human fetus is a person. The
Ethics of Abortion examines hard cases for those who are prolife,
such as abortion in cases of rape or in order to save the woman's
life, as well as hard cases for defenders of abortion, such as sex
selection abortion and the rationale for being "personally opposed"
but publicly supportive of abortion. It concludes with a discussion
of whether artificial wombs might end the abortion debate.
Answering the arguments of defenders of abortion, this book
provides reasoned justification for the view that all intentional
abortions are ethically wrong and that doctors and nurses who
object to abortion should not be forced to act against their
consciences. Updates and Revisions to the Third Edition Include:
Discusses Achas Burin's 2014 essay, "Beyond Pragmatism: Defending
the 'Bright Line' of Birth" in chapter 3 Incorporates into chapter
8 David Boonin's cogently argued 2019 book, Beyond Roe: Why
Abortion Should be Legal - Even if the Fetus is a Person Expands
chapter 9 to examine tragic cases in which prenatal diagnosis
determines with certainty that a fetus will die shortly after birth
Includes an updated and expanded section in chapter 11 on recent
debates about conscience protections Considers in chapter 12 recent
arguments that parents have a right to kill if the product of
conception is in an artificial womb Updates statistics on numbers
of abortions in the United States, including corrections to
statistics that were once thought true but are now known as
erroneous Updated bibliography
The overturning of Roe v Wade makes the ethical consideration of
abortion more important than ever. Appealing to reason rather than
religious belief, this book is the most comprehensive case against
the choice of abortion yet published. This third edition of The
Ethics of Abortion critically evaluates all the major grounds for
denying basic rights to fetal human beings, including the views of
those who defend not only abortion but also post-birth abortion. It
also provides several (non-theological) justifications for the
conclusion that all human beings, including those in utero, should
be respected as persons. This book also critiques the view that
abortion is not wrong even if the human fetus is a person. The
Ethics of Abortion examines hard cases for those who are prolife,
such as abortion in cases of rape or in order to save the woman's
life, as well as hard cases for defenders of abortion, such as sex
selection abortion and the rationale for being "personally opposed"
but publicly supportive of abortion. It concludes with a discussion
of whether artificial wombs might end the abortion debate.
Answering the arguments of defenders of abortion, this book
provides reasoned justification for the view that all intentional
abortions are ethically wrong and that doctors and nurses who
object to abortion should not be forced to act against their
consciences. Updates and Revisions to the Third Edition Include:
Discusses Achas Burin's 2014 essay, "Beyond Pragmatism: Defending
the 'Bright Line' of Birth" in chapter 3 Incorporates into chapter
8 David Boonin's cogently argued 2019 book, Beyond Roe: Why
Abortion Should be Legal - Even if the Fetus is a Person Expands
chapter 9 to examine tragic cases in which prenatal diagnosis
determines with certainty that a fetus will die shortly after birth
Includes an updated and expanded section in chapter 11 on recent
debates about conscience protections Considers in chapter 12 recent
arguments that parents have a right to kill if the product of
conception is in an artificial womb Updates statistics on numbers
of abortions in the United States, including corrections to
statistics that were once thought true but are now known as
erroneous Updated bibliography
The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics treats a
number of distinct moral questions and ?nds their answer in the
dignity of the person, both as an agent and as a patient (in the
sense of the recipient of action). Characteristically one's view of
the human being ultimately shapes one's outlook on these matters.
This book addresses questions that divide a culture of life from a
culture of death as well as a number of questions debated within
the Catholic tradition itself. The Edge of Life offers a critique
of the new bio-ethic, represented by such notable authors as Peter
Singer; it also attempts to shore up some of the dif?culties
leveled by critics against the traditional ethic as well as to
answer some questions disputed by those within the tradition. This
book does not treat the basic principles of morality but rather
many of their applications and suppositions. (For an account of
contemporary debates within the Catholic tradition on these
matters, see Kaczor 2002). Rather, The Edge of Life seeks to
address a number of disputed contemporary questions touching upon
human dignity at what has been called "the margins of life. " The
?rst section of the book treats the dignity of the human person as
recipient of action and as agent. Chapter two examines various
accounts of when a human being becomes a person.
Disputes in Bioethics tackles some of the most debated questions in
contemporary scholarship about the beginning and end of life. This
collection of essays takes up questions about the dawn of human
life, including: Should we make children with three (or more)
parents? Is it better never to have been born? and Why should the
baby live? This volume also asks about the dusk of human life: Is
"death with dignity" a dangerous euphemism? Should euthanasia be
permitted for children? Does assisted suicide harm those who do not
choose to die? Still other questions are asked concerning recent
views that health care professionals should not have a right to
conscientiously object to legal and accepted medical practices.
Finally, the book addresses questions about separating conjoined
twins as well as the issue of whether the species of an individual
makes a difference for the individual’s moral status. Christopher
Kaczor critiques some of the most recent and influential positions
in bioethics, while eschewing both consequentialism and
principalism. Rooted in the Catholic principle that faith and
reason are harmonious, this book shows how Catholic bioethical
teaching is rationally defensible in terms that people of good
will, secular or religious, can accept. Proceeding from a natural
law perspective, Kaczor defends the inherent dignity of all human
beings and argues that they merit the protection of their basic
human goods because of that inherent dignity. Philosophers
interested in applied ethics, as well as students and professors of
law, will profit from reading Disputes in Bioethics. The book aims
to be both philosophically sophisticated and accessible for
students and experienced researchers alike.
Disputes in Bioethics tackles some of the most debated questions in
contemporary scholarship about the beginning and end of life. This
collection of essays takes up questions about the dawn of human
life, including: Should we make children with three (or more)
parents? Is it better never to have been born? and Why should the
baby live? This volume also asks about the dusk of human life: Is
"death with dignity" a dangerous euphemism? Should euthanasia be
permitted for children? Does assisted suicide harm those who do not
choose to die? Still other questions are asked concerning recent
views that health care professionals should not have a right to
conscientiously object to legal and accepted medical practices.
Finally, the book addresses questions about separating conjoined
twins as well as the issue of whether the species of an individual
makes a difference for the individual’s moral status. Christopher
Kaczor critiques some of the most recent and influential positions
in bioethics, while eschewing both consequentialism and
principalism. Rooted in the Catholic principle that faith and
reason are harmonious, this book shows how Catholic bioethical
teaching is rationally defensible in terms that people of good
will, secular or religious, can accept. Proceeding from a natural
law perspective, Kaczor defends the inherent dignity of all human
beings and argues that they merit the protection of their basic
human goods because of that inherent dignity. Philosophers
interested in applied ethics, as well as students and professors of
law, will profit from reading Disputes in Bioethics. The book aims
to be both philosophically sophisticated and accessible for
students and experienced researchers alike.
The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics treats a
number of distinct moral questions and ?nds their answer in the
dignity of the person, both as an agent and as a patient (in the
sense of the recipient of action). Characteristically one's view of
the human being ultimately shapes one's outlook on these matters.
This book addresses questions that divide a culture of life from a
culture of death as well as a number of questions debated within
the Catholic tradition itself. The Edge of Life offers a critique
of the new bio-ethic, represented by such notable authors as Peter
Singer; it also attempts to shore up some of the dif?culties
leveled by critics against the traditional ethic as well as to
answer some questions disputed by those within the tradition. This
book does not treat the basic principles of morality but rather
many of their applications and suppositions. (For an account of
contemporary debates within the Catholic tradition on these
matters, see Kaczor 2002). Rather, The Edge of Life seeks to
address a number of disputed contemporary questions touching upon
human dignity at what has been called "the margins of life. " The
?rst section of the book treats the dignity of the human person as
recipient of action and as agent. Chapter two examines various
accounts of when a human being becomes a person.
Consequentialism and Catholic ethics seem to be natural enemies.
The Catholic prohibition against intentionally killing the
innocent, lying, committing adultery, and so on contradicts the
very essence of consequentialism that no act may be assessed as
good or evil independently of its consequences. However in the
1960s within the Catholic tradition itself, there arose a method in
ethics called proportionalism which practically, if not
theoretically, affirmed that which consequentialists have long
affirmed and Catholic ethicists had so long denied, namely one may
do evil that good may come. According to proportionalists, so long
as the good effects are proportioned to the bad effects of the act,
the act is licit even if evil is used as a means to achieve the
good. In this book, Christopher Kaczor argues against the
plausibility of proportionalism and its first proponents, namely
Peter Knauer, Joseph Fuchs, Bruno Schuller, Louis Janssens, and
Richard McCormick. Examining the genealogy of the movement, he
disputes a received history that depicts proportionalism as a
recovery of Thomas Aquinas. Instead, contends Kaczor,
proportionalism is best seen as the organic successor to the moral
manuals of the pre-Vatican II era. Proportionalism arises not from
Thomas but rather extends many of the tendencies and
presuppositions of the manuals. In particular, it retains their
marginalizing of the account of human action as a knowing-willing
involving a number of stages not always consciously recognized yet
carefully described by Thomas in Summa theologiae, Prima Secundae,
6-17. Kaczor shows that a great deal of the plausibility of
proportionalism rests on a fragile foundation that is rapidly
eroding, an education in the moral manuals.
Questions about the dignity of the human person give rise to many
of the most central and hotly disputed topics in bioethics. In A
Defense of Dignity: Creating Life, Destroying Life, and Protecting
the Rights of Conscience, Christopher Kaczor investigates whether
each human being has intrinsic dignity and whether the very concept
of "dignity" has a useful place in contemporary ethical debates.
Kaczor explores a broad range of issues addressed in contemporary
bioethics, including whether there is a duty of "procreative
beneficence," the ethics of ectopic pregnancy, and the possibility
of "rescuing" human embryos with human wombs or artificial wombs. A
Defense of Dignity also treats issues relevant to the end of life,
including physician-assisted suicide, provision of food and water
to patients in a persistent vegetative state, and how to proceed
with organ donation following death. Finally, what are the duties
and prerogatives of health care professionals who refuse in
conscience to take part in activities that they regard as degrading
to human dignity? Should they be forced to do what they consider to
be violations of the patient's well being, or does patient autonomy
always trump the conscience of a health care professional? Grounded
in the Catholic intellectual and moral tradition, A Defense of
Dignity argues that all human beings from the beginning to the end
of their lives should be treated with respect and considers how
this belief should be applied in controversial cases.
This book features opening arguments followed by two rounds of
reply between two moral philosophers on opposing sides of the
abortion debate. In the opening essays, Kate Greasley and
Christopher Kaczor lay out what they take to be the best case for
and against abortion rights. In the ensuing dialogue, they engage
with each other's arguments and each responds to criticisms fielded
by the other. Their conversational argument explores such
fundamental questions as: what gives a person the right to life? Is
abortion bad for women? What is the difference between abortion and
infanticide? Underpinned by philosophical reasoning and
methodology, this book provides opposing and clearly structured
perspectives on a highly emotive and controversial issue. The
result gives readers a window into how moral philosophers argue
about the contentious issue of abortion rights, and an in-depth
analysis of the compelling arguments on both sides.
This book features opening arguments followed by two rounds of
reply between two moral philosophers on opposing sides of the
abortion debate. In the opening essays, Kate Greasley and
Christopher Kaczor lay out what they take to be the best case for
and against abortion rights. In the ensuing dialogue, they engage
with each other's arguments and each responds to criticisms fielded
by the other. Their conversational argument explores such
fundamental questions as: what gives a person the right to life? Is
abortion bad for women? What is the difference between abortion and
infanticide? Underpinned by philosophical reasoning and
methodology, this book provides opposing and clearly structured
perspectives on a highly emotive and controversial issue. The
result gives readers a window into how moral philosophers argue
about the contentious issue of abortion rights, and an in-depth
analysis of the compelling arguments on both sides.
During more than a half century at the University of Notre Dame,
Dr. Ralph McInerny's legendary achievements include writing more
than 50 non-fiction books in philosophy, medieval studies, and
theology, as well as more than 90 novels, including the Father
Dowling Murder Mystery series. This volume offers personal
reflections on the man himself and what he meant to so many over
his rich life of teaching, writing, and contributing to the life of
the mind. Alasdair MacIntyre, Cardinal Francis George, Ralph's
brother D.Q. McInerny, Michael Novak, John Haldane, Joseph Bottum,
Thomas De Konick, Jude P. Dougherty, Gerard V. Bradley, Fr. Marvin
O'Connell, and many others (see below) aim to capture some of the
'more' that was McInerny, a more that cannot be captured by any
curriculum vitae, even one as impressive as Ralph's. The stories,
anecdotes, and reflections in this volume give us various snapshots
of the man that cannot be found in news accounts, press releases,
or academic evaluations. A person as great as Ralph should not live
merely in memory, so some record such as this volume written his
friends, colleagues, and former students becomes appropriate. Also
included is a full list of all the books - fiction and non-fiction
- authored by McInerny as well as enumeration of his forty-eight
doctoral students and their dissertations completed under his
direction. Finally, the collection is rounded out by five
contributions by McInerny himself: a poem about his late wife
Connie, a scholarly article "Why I Am a Thomist," a popular essay,
"Mementoes Never Die," an early Roger Knight mystery entitled "Dust
Abhors a Vacuum," as well as his last written words.
Just as Aristotelian metaphysics provided a new basis for the
natural theology of Aquinas's time, so too, positive psychology
provides a basis for a natural moral theology in our own time. this
book marshals the empirically verifiable findings of positive
psychology that show the wisdom of the Christian tradition.
Christian warnings about the dangers of greed, coveting a
neighbor's goods (social comparison), and pride find an empirical
verification. Likewise, positive psychology vindicates the wisdom
of Christian teaching on the importance of forgiveness, of
gratitude, of humility, and of serving one's neighbor. moreover,
positive psychology also can be a service to Christian believers by
helping them in their struggles with willpower, by providing new
motivations for prayer, and by helping them identify their
signature strengths. Finally, this book argues, in a variety of
ways, that it is folly to think that even the best of psychology
can serve as a replacement for Christianity.
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