[DOC][DOC] Health, harm and potential

D Hershenov, R Hershenov - Southwest Philosophy Review, 2016 - buffalo.edu
Both sides of the abortion debate have failed to appreciate that healthy development is the
key to understanding how potential can be morally relevant. All living beings, mindless or …

The potential of potentiality arguments

D Hershenov, R Hershenov - Contemporary Controversies in Catholic …, 2017 - Springer
We contend that both the defenders and critics of potentiality arguments in the abortion
debate have failed to appreciate the morally relevant aspects of potential. Crucial for …

[PDF][PDF] Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine

BA Manninen - Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in …, 2007 - peh-med.biomedcentral.com
One of the most famous, and most derided, arguments against the morality of abortion is the
argument from potential, which maintains that the fetus' potential to become a person and …

Abortion and Potential

CB Daniels - … Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue canadienne de …, 1979 - cambridge.org
In a recent article “Abortion and Simple Consciousness'(Journal of Philosophy, V. LXXIV, N.
3, pp. 159–172), Werner S. Pluhar puts forward the following view: A few words of …

Revisiting the argument from fetal potential

BA Manninen - Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 2007 - Springer
One of the most famous, and most derided, arguments against the morality of abortion is the
argument from potential, which maintains that the fetus' potential to become a person and …

Revisiting the argument from fetal potential

B Alvarez Manninen - Philosophy …, 2007 - repository.library.georgetown.edu
One of the most famous, and most derided, arguments against the morality of abortion is the
argument from potential, which maintains that the fetus' potential to become a person and …

Two kinds of Potentiality: a Critique of McGinn on the Ethics of Abortion

D Jacquette - Journal of applied philosophy, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
In Moral Literacy, or How to Do the Right Thing, Colin McGinn proposes a consequentialist
solution to the abortion dilemma. McGinn interprets moral rights and moral interests as …

Revisiting the argument from fetal potential

B Manninen - Potentiality: metaphysical and bioethical …, 2014 - books.google.com
Background One of the most famous, and concurrently one of the most derided, arguments
against the morality of abortion is the argument from fetal potential. This argument maintains …

Potentiality, Death and Abortion

RM Feezell - The Southern journal of philosophy, 1987 - search.proquest.com
After more than a decade and a half of intense philosophical scrutiny, the abortion issue
seems no less difficult, no less bothersome to serious, reflective people. In 1975 Jane …

Morality, potential persons and abortion

J Bigelow, R Pargetter - American Philosophical Quarterly, 1988 - JSTOR
TT sounds very close to truism of moral theory to^ say:" If you act in a way that harms no-one,
then that act is morally permissible unless there is some over-riding moral consideration …