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Moral Status: Obligations to Persons and Other Living Things de Mary Anne Warren

Moral Status: Obligations to Persons and Other Living Things: Issues in Biomedical Ethics

Autor Mary Anne Warren
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2000
Mary Anne Warren investigates a theoretical question that is at the center of practical and professional ethics: what are the criteria for having moral status? That is, what does it take to be an entity towards which people have moral considerations? Warren argues that no single property will do as a sole criterion, and puts forward seven basic principles as criteria. She then applies these principles to three controversial moral issues: voluntary euthanasia, abortion, and the moral status of animals.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198250401
ISBN-10: 0198250401
Pagini: 274
Dimensiuni: 139 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Issues in Biomedical Ethics

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Descriere

Mary Anne Warren explores a theoretical question which lies at the heart of practical ethics: what are the criteria for having moral status? In other words, what are the criteria for being an entity towards which people have moral obligations? Some philosophers maintain that there is one intrinsic property—for instance, life, sentience, humanity, or moral agency. Others believe that relational properties, such as belonging to a human community, are more important.In Part I of the book, Warren argues that no single property can serve as the sole criterion for moral status; instead, life, sentience, moral agency, and social and biotic relationships are all relevant, each in a different way. She presents seven basic principles, each focusing on a property thatcan, in combination with others, legitimately affect an agent's moral obligations towards entities of a given type. In Part II, these principles are applied in an examination of three controversial ethical issues: voluntary euthanasia, abortion

Recenzii

This book is ambitious in the ground it covers, attempting to discuss a number of theories of "moral status", and offer one of its own. It has much in it to interest people concerned about health care (particularly the discussions of euthanasia and abortion), as well as those interested in animal rights and environmental issues.
The logic of the application of the principles she sets forth is clear. Her theory should prompt discussion and help clarify the concept of moral status. Her multicriterial approach for determining moral status has the potential to assist in the struggle to handle the complex moral issues prevalent today.
Mary Anne Warren's enterprise, to delineate "obligations to persons and other living things" is potentially fruitful, and of considerable importance.
This is a thought-provoking book with much to recommend it.

Notă biografică

Mary Anne Warren is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University.