Valuing Life (eBook)

John Kleinig (Autor)

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2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6228-3 (ISBN)

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Abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, war, genetic engineering and fetal experimentation, environmental and animal rights--these topics inspire some of today's most heated public controversies. And it is fashionable to pursue these debates in terms of the negative query "Under what conditions may life be disregarded or terminated?" John Kleinig asks a different, more positive question: What may be said in behalf of life? Looking at the full range of appeals to life's value, he considers a variety of issues. Is livingness as such to be affirmed and respected? Is there an ascending order of plant, animal, and human life? Does human life possess a distinctive claim, or must we discriminate between humans that do and humans that do not have claims on us? Kleinig shows that assertions about valuing life camouflage a complex normative vocabulary about worth, reverence, sanctity, dignity, respect, and rights. And "life," too, is subject to an assortment of understandings. Sensitive to the frameworks informing diverse appeals to life's value, this comprehensive work will interest readers concerned with the environment, animal rights, or bioethics.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Abortion • Accountability • Albert Camus • Ambiguity • Analogy • Anthropomorphism • Aristotelianism • awareness • Capital punishment • Centrality • Civilization and Its Discontents • Coma • Concept • conceptus • Conflation • conformity • Consciousness • Consideration • creation myth • Decision-Making • ecosystem • Ensoulment • Entrapment • Environmental Ethics • ethics • euthanasia • Exaltation (astrology) • Fetus • Flourishing • fodder • Form of life (philosophy) • Genetic Engineering • Genre • God • greatness • humility • income • Individual • Infant • Instrumental Value • interdependence • Jane Austen • Jean-Paul Sartre • J. L. Mackie • John Rawls • Killing of animals • kinship • Lie • Morality • Natural Law • Nausea • organism • originality • Pacifism • Panpsychism • perception • persistent vegetative state • Personality • Personhood • philosophical inquiry • Philosophy • Phrase • post-structuralism • Potentiality and actuality • Prevalence • Probability • Public Policy • rational agent • Rationality • reason • Recycling • Respect for persons • result • Reverence for Life • Right to life • Roland Barthes • Sake • sanctity of life • scattering • self-awareness • self-consciousness • self-evidence • Sentient beings (Buddhism) • Suggestion • S-wave • Sympathy • theory • Theory of Forms • The Other Hand • The Various • Thomism • Thought • Understanding • Utilitarianism • Value of Life • Vegetarianism • vocabulary • well-being • Wilhelm Dilthey • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6228-0 / 1400862280
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6228-3 / 9781400862283