Genethics : moral issues in the creation of people /
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| Author / Creator: | Heyd, David |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992. |
| Description: | xiii, 276 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1322665 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Playing God
- Pt. 1. Paradoxes. 1. Wrongful Life: A Pure Genesis Problem. Ethics and Genethics. The Three Levels of Moral Discourse. Suing for Being Born. A Right Not to Be Born versus A Right to Be Born Healthy. Legal Policy and the Suspension of Logic. Philosophical Significance of Wrongful Life Cases. 2. The Failure of Traditional Ethical Theories. The Theoretical Ascent. Contractors Deciding on Their Existence. Respect for the Unconceived? Utility and Its Assignability. 3. The Meta-ethical Deadlock. The Methodological Ascent. Two Levels of Reflective Equilibrium. Impersonalism in Ethics versus Person-affecting Axiology
- Pt. 2. Generocentrism. 4. Existence. The Agenda for Genethical Theory. Actual versus Potential Persons. The Paradox of Future Individuals. The Slave Child: The Issue of Asymmetry. Personalism and Asymmetry. The Value of Life. 5. Numbers. The Politicization of Genesis Problems. Do Numbers Count? Optimum Population Size--A Myth? Coordination and Distribution. 6. Identity. Shaping Persons' Identity as a Genesis Problem. The Radical Molding of People: Genetic Engineering. The Subtle Formation of Identity: Education
- Pt. 3. Genethics and the Limits of Ethics. 7. Empirical Constraints. Mitigating the Counterintuitive Nature of Genethics. Generational Overlap and the Desire to Have Children. Environmental Conditions: Deep and Shallow Ecology. 8. Self-Transcendence and Vicarious Immortality. Pro-creation by Re-production. The Great Generation Chain. The Metaphysics of Genesis.
