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Debating procreation : is it wrong to reproduce? / David Benatar, David Wasserman.
LIBRA BJ1335 .B46 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benatar, David, author.
- Wasserman, David, author.
- Series:
- Debating ethics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human reproduction--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Human reproduction.
- Life--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Life.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 269 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- David Benatar is Professor and Head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Cape Town. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introducing anti-natalism
- The asymmetry argument
- The quality of life argument
- The misanthropic argument
- Contra procreation
- Better to have lived and lost?
- Against anti-natalism
- The good of the future child and the parent-child relationship as goals of procreation
- Impersonal constraints on procreation
- Alternatives to impersonal approaches: birthrights and role-based duties.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199333554
- 0199333556
- 9780199333547
- 0199333548
- OCLC:
- 900306346
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