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- Explores whether our moral obligation is to make "happy people," as Narveson put it, or to make "people happy"
- Describes a form of consequentialism tempered by deontological principle
- Introduces lawyers and philosophers working in applied ethics to the issues in moral theory, population ethics and social choice theory
- Concludes with concrete results that will be both controversial and (relatively) straightforward, modest and non-doctrinal
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Book Title: Abortion and the Moral Significance of Merely Possible Persons
Book Subtitle: Finding Middle Ground in Hard Cases
Authors: Melinda A. Roberts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3792-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3791-6Published: 06 June 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3228-5Published: 05 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3792-3Published: 09 August 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 190
Topics: Sociology, general, Ethics, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Constitutional Law, Medical Law, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History