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Moral status and human life : the case for children's superiority /
"Are children of equal, lesser, or perhaps even greater moral importance than adults? This work of applied moral philosophy develops a comprehensive account of how adults as moral agents ascribe moral status to beings - ourselves and others - and on the basis of that account identifies multiple...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Are children of equal, lesser, or perhaps even greater moral importance than adults? This work of applied moral philosophy develops a comprehensive account of how adults as moral agents ascribe moral status to beings - ourselves and others - and on the basis of that account identifies multiple criteria for having moral status. It argues that proper application of those criteria should lead us to treat children as of greater moral importance than adults. This conclusion presents a basis for critiquing existing social practices, many of which implicitly presuppose that children occupy an inferior status, and for suggesting how government policy, law, and social life might be different if it reflected an assumption that children are actually of superior status"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 212 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511932809 0511932804 9780511779602 0511779607 0511852649 9780511852640 1107217636 9781107217638 1282918729 9781282918726 9786612918728 6612918721 0511931468 9780511931468 0511927614 9780511927614 0511925077 9780511925078 0511930127 9780511930126 |