Abortion and infanticide / Michael Tooley.

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Main Author: Tooley, Michael, 1941-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, ©1983.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Philosophical background
  • 1. Ethics, meta-ethics, and philosophical thinking
  • Part II. Abortion
  • 2. Abortion: introductory remarks
  • 3. The relevance of the moral status of the foetus
  • 4. Persons and human beings
  • 5. The concept of a person
  • 6. Potential persons
  • 7. Possible persons
  • 8. Moderate positions on abortion
  • 9. A brief summary
  • Part III. Infanticide
  • 10. Present-day attitudes, and the historical and anthropological background
  • 11. Objections to infanticide
  • 12. Summary and conclusions.