Moral status and human life : the case for children's superiority / James G. Dwyer.
"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...
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| Hōputu: | iPukapuka |
| Reo: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Urunga tuihono: | Cambridge Books on Core Contributor biographical information |
| Whakarāpopototanga: | "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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| Whakaahuatanga ōkiko: | 1 online resource (viii, 212 pages) |
| Hōputu: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Rārangi puna kōrero: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511779607 9780511779602 0511927614 9780511927614 0511930127 9780511930126 0511932804 9780511932809 1107637619 9781107637610 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511779602 |