A01=Rosalind Hursthouse
abortion
attitudes
Author_Rosalind Hursthouse
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element
emphasis
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facts
foetal research
issues
lives
maturity
motherhood
nature
novel approach
positions
pregnancies
questions
relation
vices
virtues
women
Product details
- ISBN 9780631153283
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 200 x 250mm
- Publication Date: 24 Sep 1987
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this text book Rosalind Hursthouse examines the complex questions surrounding the morality of abortion. Beginning by discussing the moral status of the foetus, she outlines and criticizes the main philosophical liberal positions on abortion, discussing alsl their bearing on the related issues of ifanticide, foetal research, surrogacy, murder and our treatment of animals. In place of the currently prevailing positions, the author offers a novel approach to these issues based on the recently revived theory of neo-Aristotelianism which emphasizes moral virtues and vices.
A central element of Beginning Lives is its emphasis on the special nature of abortion: its unique relation to the facts of women's pregnancies and hence to our attitudes to childbearing, motherhood, maturity and sexual relations.
Rosalind Hursthouse is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland.
