Book Detail
Edition: 2010
Release: 2010-06-24
Publisher: Springer
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 904818536X
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Human Capacities and Moral Status (Philosophy and Medicine) pdf
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Many debates about the moral status of things—for example, debates about the natural rights of human fetuses or nonhuman animals—eventually migrate towards a discussion of the capacities of the things in question—for example, their capacities to feel pain, think, or love. Yet the move towards capacities is often controversial: if a human’s capacities are the basis of its moral status, how could a human having lesser capacities than you and I have the same "serious" moral status as you and I? This book answers this question by arguing that if something is human, it has a set of typical human capacities; that if something has a set of typical human capacities, it has serious moral status; and thus all human beings have the same sort of serious moral status as you and I. Beginning from what our common intuitions tell us about situations involving "temporary incapacitation"—where a human organism has, then loses, then regains a certain capacity—this book argues for substantive Download Human Capacities and Moral Status (Philosophy and Medicine) for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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