The moral status of babies and our obligations to them

This thesis explores who counts: who is part of the so-called moral community, and why. If personhood is the measure of full moral considerability—as many take it to be—then marginal humans will not count as fully morally considerable. At best, we will have to say that they matter the way that senti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Porter, Lindsey
Other Authors: Bennett, Christopher
Published: University of Sheffield 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.566309