The Risk of a Lifetime

The Risk of a Lifetime PDF Author: Rivka Weinberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190243708
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Book Description
This original, comprehensive theory of procreative ethics explains what kind of act procreation is and when we may permissibly engage in it. In order to ascertain when the procreative risk is permissible to impose, Weinberg proposes contractualist principles to fairly attend to the interests prospective parents have in procreating and the interests future people have in a life of human flourishing. The book presents a solution to the non-identity problem as well as dilemmas regarding our liberal principles of autonomy, consent, and equality, which may seem to be in tension with our procreative practices.