Moral Status and Human Life : The Case for Children's Superiority
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521766915
ISBN-13
9780521766913
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 21st, 2010
Print length
220 Pages
Weight
438 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.80 x 2.00 cms
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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.
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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