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Harming Future Persons : Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (371 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781402056970
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 170
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Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Harming Future Persons: Introduction -- Part I Can Bringing a Person into Existence Harm That Person? Can an Act That Harms No One Be Wrong? -- 1 The Intractability of the Nonidentity Problem -- Part II If Bringing a Badly Off Person into Existence is Wrong, is Not Bringing a Well Off Person into Existence Also Wrong? -- 2 Rights and the Asymmetry Between Creating Good and Bad Lives -- 3 Asymmetries in the Morality of Causing People to Exist -- Part III Must an Act Worse for People be Worse for a Particular Person? -- 4 Who Cares About Identity? -- 5 Do Future Persons Presently Have Alternate Possible Identities? -- 6 Rule Consequentialism and Non-identity -- Part IV Is the Argument to "No Harm Done" Correct? Must an Act that Harms a Person Make that Person Worse Off? -- 7 Harming as Causing Harm -- 8 Wrongful Life and Procreative Decisions -- 9 Harming and Procreating -- 10 The Nonidentity Problem and the Two Envelope Problem: When is One Act Better for a Person than Another? -- Part V Is the Morality of Parental Reproductive Choice Special? Can Intentions and Attitudes Make an Act that Harms No One Wrong? -- 11 Reproduction, Partiality, and the Non-identity Problem -- 12 Two Varieties of "Better-For" Judgements -- 13 Harms to Future People and Procreative Intentions -- Part VI Is the Person Affecting Approach Objectionable Independent of the Nonidentity Problem? -- 14 Can the Person Affecting Restriction Solve the Problems in Population Ethics? -- Part VII What are the Implications of the Nonidentity Problem for Law and Public Policy? -- 15 Implications of the Nonidentity Problem for State Regulation of Reproductive Liberty -- 16 Reparations for U.S. Slavery and Justice Over Time -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Summary: This collection of essays, written by noted scholars and theorists, covers everything from the practical to the theoretical, and investigates the obligations we have to future persons, ranging from our own future offspring to distant future generations.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- Harming Future Persons: Introduction -- Part I Can Bringing a Person into Existence Harm That Person? Can an Act That Harms No One Be Wrong? -- 1 The Intractability of the Nonidentity Problem -- Part II If Bringing a Badly Off Person into Existence is Wrong, is Not Bringing a Well Off Person into Existence Also Wrong? -- 2 Rights and the Asymmetry Between Creating Good and Bad Lives -- 3 Asymmetries in the Morality of Causing People to Exist -- Part III Must an Act Worse for People be Worse for a Particular Person? -- 4 Who Cares About Identity? -- 5 Do Future Persons Presently Have Alternate Possible Identities? -- 6 Rule Consequentialism and Non-identity -- Part IV Is the Argument to "No Harm Done" Correct? Must an Act that Harms a Person Make that Person Worse Off? -- 7 Harming as Causing Harm -- 8 Wrongful Life and Procreative Decisions -- 9 Harming and Procreating -- 10 The Nonidentity Problem and the Two Envelope Problem: When is One Act Better for a Person than Another? -- Part V Is the Morality of Parental Reproductive Choice Special? Can Intentions and Attitudes Make an Act that Harms No One Wrong? -- 11 Reproduction, Partiality, and the Non-identity Problem -- 12 Two Varieties of "Better-For" Judgements -- 13 Harms to Future People and Procreative Intentions -- Part VI Is the Person Affecting Approach Objectionable Independent of the Nonidentity Problem? -- 14 Can the Person Affecting Restriction Solve the Problems in Population Ethics? -- Part VII What are the Implications of the Nonidentity Problem for Law and Public Policy? -- 15 Implications of the Nonidentity Problem for State Regulation of Reproductive Liberty -- 16 Reparations for U.S. Slavery and Justice Over Time -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

This collection of essays, written by noted scholars and theorists, covers everything from the practical to the theoretical, and investigates the obligations we have to future persons, ranging from our own future offspring to distant future generations.

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