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Contingent Future Persons :

(Number (ISBN

9401155666

(Number (ISBN

9789401155663

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b595470

Title Proper

Contingent Future Persons :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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On the Ethics of Deciding Who Will Live, or Not, in the Future

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Nick Fotion, Jan C. Heller.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1997

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(vii, 216 pages)

Series Title

Theology and medicine, 9.

Text of Note

When Does Potentiality Count? A Comment on Lockwood --; Hare on Potentiality: A Rejoinder --; The Morality of Knowingly Conceiving Children with Serious Conditions: An Expanded 'Wrongful Life' Standard --; Person-Affecting Principles and Beyond --; Divine Creation and Human Procreation: Reflections on Genesis in the Light of Genesis --; Deciding the Timing of Children: An Ethical Challenge Only Indirectly Addressed by the Christian Tradition --; Repugnant Thoughts about the Repugnant Conclusion Argument --; Person-Affecting Utilitarianism and Population Policy; Or, Sissy Jupe's Theory of Social Choice --; Down to Earth Environmentalism: Sustainability and Future Persons --; More Than They Have a Right to: Future People and Our Future Oriented Projects --; Contingency, Community and Intergenerational Justice --; Bringing Embryos into Existence for Research Purposes --; Anticipating Posterity: A Lonerganian Approach to the Problem of Contingent Future Persons --; Notes on Contributors.

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This volume is concerned with how we ought to evaluate the individual and collective actions on which the existence, numbers and identities of future people depend - discussed here as the `problem of contingent future persons'. For it seems that those future persons who are brought into existence by such actions cannot benefit from or be harmed by them in any conventional sense. This is a relatively novel problem in ethics and as yet there is simply no consensus on how we ought to evaluate such actions or, indeed, on whether we can. However, the pursuit of a solution to the problem has been interestingly employed by moral philosophers to press the limits of ethics and to urge a reconsideration of the nature and source of value at its most fundamental level. Intended for professional ethicists, policy researchers, and graduate students, this volume explores the theological implications of the problem and advances the investigation of it both in philosophical and in theological terms.

Ethics.

Philosophy (General)

Religion (General)

edited by Nick Fotion, Jan C. Heller.

Jan C Heller

Nick Fotion

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