Abortion and the Moral Significance of Merely Possible Persons: Finding Middle Ground in Hard Cases

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Melinda A. Roberts

Abortion and the Moral Significance of Merely Possible Persons

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Finding Middle Ground in Hard Cases

Melinda A. Roberts

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Springer
06 June 2010

Ethics & moral philosophy; Ethical issues: abortion & birth control; Medical ethics & professional conduct

Series: Philosophy and Medicine

1.1 Goals 1.1.1 I have two main goals in this book. The first is to give an account of the moral significance of merely possible persons – persons who, relative to a particular 1 circumstance, or possible future or world, could but in fact never do exist. I call that account Variabilism. My second goal is to use Variabilism to begin to address the problem of abortion. 1.1.2 We ought to do the best we can for people. And we consider this obligation to extend to people who are, relative to a world, existing or future. But does it extend to merely possible people as well? And, if it does, then does it extend to making things better for them by way of bringing them into existence? If we say that surely it doesn’t, does that then mean that our obligation to do the best we can for people does not, after all, extend to the merely possible – that the merely p- sible do not matter morally? But if the merely possible do not matter morally, then doesn’t that mean that it would be permissible for us to bring them into miserable existences – and even obligatory to do just that – in the case where bringing the merely possible into miserable existences creates additional wellbeing for existing 1 References to merely possible persons and, later on, to persons who do exist – existing persons

By: Melinda A. Roberts
Imprint: Springer
Edition: 2010 ed.
Volume: 107
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 1.010kg
ISBN: 9789048137916
ISBN 10: 9048137918
Series: Philosophy and Medicine
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 06 June 2010
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

The Moral Significance of Merely Possible Persons.- The Abortion Paradox.- Three More Arguments Against Early Abortion.- Abortion and Variabilism.- Conclusion.