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Permissible Progeny?

Sarah Hannan, Samantha Brennan, Richard Vernon
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      This volume contributes to the growing literature on the morality of procreation and parenting. About half of the chapters take up questions about the morality of bringing children into existence. They discuss the following questions: Is it wrong to create human life? Is there a connection between the problem of evil and the morality of procreation? Could there be a duty to procreate? How do the environmental harms imposed by procreation affect its moralstatus? Given these costs, is the value of establishing genetic ties ever significant enough to render procreation morally permissible? And how should government respond to peoples' motives for procreating?The other half of the volume considers moral and political questions about adoption and parenting. One chapter considers whether the choice to become a parent can be rational. The two following chapters take up the regulation of adoption, focusing on whether the special burdens placed on adoptive parents, as compared to biological parents, can be morally justified. The book concludes by considering how we should conceive of adequacy standards in parenting and what resources we owe tochildren.This collection builds on existing literature by advancing new arguments and novel perspectives on existing debates. It also raises new issues deserving of our attention. As a whole it is sure to generate further philosophical debate on pressing and rich questions surrounding the bearing and rearing of children.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Sarah Hannan, Samantha Brennan, Richard Vernon EAN: 9780199378128 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 382 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-10-15 CITY: GENRE: HEALTH & FITNESS / Sexuality, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies WIDTH: 164 cm SPINE:

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      Ethical issues and debates, Bioethics, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social and political philosophy

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      Sarah Hannan is Assistant Professor of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba.Samantha Brennan is Professor of Philosophy at Western University and co-editor of Philosophy and Death (Broadview, 2009) and The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought (Broadview, three volumes, 2008-2012).Richard Vernon is Distinguished University Professor at Western University and author of Cosmopolitan Regard (Cambridge, 2010) and Historical Redress (Bloomsbury, 2012).
      This volume contributes to the growing literature on the morality of procreation and parenting. About half of the chapters take up questions about the morality of bringing children into existence. They discuss the following questions: Is it wrong to create human life? Is there a connection between the problem of evil and the morality of procreation? Could there be a duty to procreate? How do the environmental harms imposed by procreation affect its moralstatus? Given these costs, is the value of establishing genetic ties ever significant enough to render procreation morally permissible? And how should government respond to peoples' motives for procreating?The other half of the volume considers moral and political questions about adoption and parenting. One chapter considers whether the choice to become a parent can be rational. The two following chapters take up the regulation of adoption, focusing on whether the special burdens placed on adoptive parents, as compared to biological parents, can be morally justified. The book concludes by considering how we should conceive of adequacy standards in parenting and what resources we owe tochildren.This collection builds on existing literature by advancing new arguments and novel perspectives on existing debates. It also raises new issues deserving of our attention. As a whole it is sure to generate further philosophical debate on pressing and rich questions surrounding the bearing and rearing of children.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Sarah Hannan, Samantha Brennan, Richard Vernon EAN: 9780199378128 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 382 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-10-15 CITY: GENRE: HEALTH & FITNESS / Sexuality, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies WIDTH: 164 cm SPINE:

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      Ethical issues and debates, Bioethics, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social and political philosophy

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      Sarah Hannan is Assistant Professor of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba.Samantha Brennan is Professor of Philosophy at Western University and co-editor of Philosophy and Death (Broadview, 2009) and The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought (Broadview, three volumes, 2008-2012).Richard Vernon is Distinguished University Professor at Western University and author of Cosmopolitan Regard (Cambridge, 2010) and Historical Redress (Bloomsbury, 2012).

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