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9780847692088

Abortion and the Ways We Value Human Life

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  • ISBN13:

    9780847692088

  • ISBN10:

    0847692086

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-12-23
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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Summary

In Abortion and the Ways We Value Life, Jeffrey Reiman argues that an overlooked clue to the solution of the moral problem lies in the unusual way in which we value the lives of individual human beings -- namely, that we value them irreplaceably. We think it is not only wrong to kill an innocent human child or adult, but that it would not be made right by replacing the dead one with another living one, or even several.

Author Biography

Jeffrey Reiman is William Fraser McDowell Professor of Philosophy at American University in Washington, D.C. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1942, Reiman received his B.A. in Philosophy from Queens College in 1963 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Pennsylvania State University in 1968. He was a Fulbright Scholar in India during 1966-67. Reiman joined the American University faculty in 1970, in the Center for the Administration of Justice (now called the Department of Justice, Law and Society of the School of Public Affairs). After several years of holding a joint appointment in the Justice program and the Department of Philosophy and Religion, he joined the Department of Philosophy and Religion full-time in 1988, becoming director of the Master's Program in Philosophy and Social Policy. He was named William Fraser McDowell Professor of Philosophy in 1990.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Asymmetric Value of Human Life 1(1)
Argument
1(7)
Basic Terms
8(3)
Abortion
8(1)
Fetus or Embryo
8(1)
Pro-life and Pro-choice
9(1)
Right to Life and Moral Vulnerability to Murder
9(1)
Humans and Persons
10(1)
Overview
11(4)
Abortion, from Hammurabi's Code to Roe v. Wade
15(36)
From Hammurabi's Code . . .
15(21)
. . .to Roe v. Wade
36(7)
A Limited Defense of Roe v. Wade
43(8)
The Main Abortion Arguments and Why They Fail
51(36)
Arguing around the Fetus
52(7)
A Woman's Right to Control Her Body
52(1)
Viability
53(2)
Owning One's Womb
55(2)
Virtue Theory
57(2)
Arguing about the Fetus
59(28)
Human from Conception
59(1)
Species Membership and Uniqueness
60(3)
Potentiality
63(4)
What It Looks Like
67(1)
Sentience
67(1)
Higher Mental Capacities
68(2)
The Conventional Meaning of Personhood
70(1)
The Logic of Rights
71(2)
Continuity and Gradualness
73(1)
Intrinsic Values, Intentions, and Double Effects
74(5)
Physical Identity
79(4)
The Sacredness of Life
83(1)
Loss of a Future Life like Ours
84(3)
Abortion, Infanticide, and the Ways we Value Human Life
87(30)
Intuitions, Infants, Intrinsic Value, and Existence
87(5)
Values, Objective and Subjective
92(2)
Ways of Valuing
94(3)
Categorical, Individual, and Conditional Valuing
94(2)
Wanting, Loving, Respecting
96(1)
Respect as Reasonable Asymmetrical Valuing
97(4)
The Morality of Abortion
101(1)
Persons and Ends-in-Themselves
102(2)
Love, Infanticide, and Fetuses
104(4)
The Stages of Human Being and the Ways we Value Life
108(5)
Abortion and Liberal Discourse
113(4)
Index 117(10)
About the Author 127

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