The ethics of killing: problems at the margins of life
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CONTENTS
1. IDENTITY
3
ι.
Preliminaries
3
2.
The Soul
7
2.1.
Hylomorphism
7
2.2.
The Cartesian Soul
14
2.3.
Divided Consciousness
19
3.
Are We Human Organisms?
24
3.1.
When Does a Human Organism Begin to Exist?
24
3.2.
Organisms, Embryos, and Corpses
29
3.3.
Brain Transplantation
31
3.4.
Dicephalus
35
4.
The Psychological Account
39
4.1.
Identity and Egoistic Concern
39
4.2.
Beginning to Exist and Ceasing to Exist
43
4.3.
"Pre-persons" and "Post-persons"
46
4.4.
Revisions and a Note on Method
48
4.5.
Replication and Egoistic Concern
55
4.6.
Psychological Connectedness and Continuity
59
5.
The Embodied Mind Account
66
5./.
The Embodied Mind Account of Identity
66
5.2.
The Basis of Egoistic Concern
69
¡.3.
Possible Divergences Between Identity and Egoistic Concern
82
5.4.
The Individuation of Minds
86
3.5.
Mind, Brain, and Organism
88
2.
DEATH
95
1.
Preliminaries
95
2.
The Problem of Comparison
98
2.7.
Immortality
98
2.2.
The Token Comparison
103
3.
The Metaphysical Problem
107
3.1.
A Plurality of Comparisons
107
3.2.
Criteria for Determining the Appropriate Comparison
112
4.
The Problem of Overdetermination
117
4.1.
When Death Would Have Occurred Soon From a Different Cause uy
4.2.
The Inheritance Strategy and the Problem of the Terminus
120
4.3.
Overall Losses in Dying
12y
4.4.
The Previous Gain Account
136
XU CONTENTS
4.5.
Discounting Misfortunes for Previous Gains
140
5.
Overall Lifelong Fortune
145
5./.
The Standard for Assessing Fortune
145
5.2.
A Hierarchy of Being?
159
5.3.
The Overall Fortune of Those Who Die in Infancy
162
6.
The Deaths of Fetuses and Infants
165
6.1.
The Time-Relative Interest Account
165
6.2.
Narrative Unity, Retroactive Effects, Desert, and Desire
174
7.
A Paradox
185
3.
KILLING
189
1.
The Wrongness of Killing and the Badness of Death I
89
1.1. Two Accounts
189
1.2.
The Killing of Animals
194
2.
Animals and Severely Cognitively Impaired Human Beings
203
2.1.
The Options
203
2.2.
Membership in the Human Species
209
2.3.
Comembership in a Species as a Special Relation
217
2.4.
Convergent Assimilation
228
3.
Equality and Respect
232
3.1.
The Time-Relative Interest Account
232
3.2.
The Requirement of Respect
240
3.3.
The Basis of the Worth of Persons
251
4.
BEGINNINGS
267
1.
Early Abortion
267
2.
Late Abortion
269
3.
Prenatal Harm
280
4.
Is a Later Abortion Worse?
288
5.
Time-Relative Interests and Adaptation
294
6.
Potential
302
6.1.
Potential and Identity
302
6.2.
Potential as a Basis for Moral Status
308
6.3.
Potential, Cognitive Impairment, and Animals
316
7.
The Sanctity of Human Life
329
8.
Infanticide
338
8.1.
Abortion and Infanticide
338
8.2.
Are Infants "Replaceable?"
345
9.
Abortion as the Denial of Life-Support
362
9.1.
The Argument
362
9.2.
Responsibility for the Fetus's Need for Aid
364
9.3.
Parental Responsibility
373
9.4.
Killing and Letting Die
378
9.5.
The Dependent Child Case
392
10.
Abortion and Self-Defense
398
10.1.
Self-Defense Against a Nonresponsible Threat
398
10.2.
Proportionality, Third-party Intervention, and Forfeiture
411
10.3.
The Decisive Asymmetry
418
Contents xiii
5.
ENDINGS
423
ι.
When Do We Die, or Cease to Exist?
423
1.1. Two Concepts of Death
423
1.2.
Brain Death
426
1.3.
Persistent Vegetative State and Deep Coma
443
1.4.
Anencephalic Infants
430
2.
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
455
2.1.
From Suicide to Euthanasia
455
2.2.
The Sanctity of Life, Again
464
2.3.
Respect for the Worth of Persons 4J3
2.4.
Nonvoluntary Euthanasia
485
3.
The Withering Away of the Self
493
3.1.
The Metaphysics of Progressive Dementia
493
3.2.
The Moral Authority of Advance Directives
496
NOTES
505
REFERENCES
521
INDEX OF CASES
531
GENERAL INDEX
533 |
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CONTENTS
1. IDENTITY
3
ι.
Preliminaries
3
2.
The Soul
7
2.1.
Hylomorphism
7
2.2.
The Cartesian Soul
14
2.3.
Divided Consciousness
19
3.
Are We Human Organisms?
24
3.1.
When Does a Human Organism Begin to Exist?
24
3.2.
Organisms, Embryos, and Corpses
29
3.3.
Brain Transplantation
31
3.4.
Dicephalus
35
4.
The Psychological Account
39
4.1.
Identity and Egoistic Concern
39
4.2.
Beginning to Exist and Ceasing to Exist
43
4.3.
"Pre-persons" and "Post-persons"
46
4.4.
Revisions and a Note on Method
48
4.5.
Replication and Egoistic Concern
55
4.6.
Psychological Connectedness and Continuity
59
5.
The Embodied Mind Account
66
5./.
The Embodied Mind Account of Identity
66
5.2.
The Basis of Egoistic Concern
69
¡.3.
Possible Divergences Between Identity and Egoistic Concern
82
5.4.
The Individuation of Minds
86
3.5.
Mind, Brain, and Organism
88
2.
DEATH
95
1.
Preliminaries
95
2.
The Problem of Comparison
98
2.7.
Immortality
98
2.2.
The Token Comparison
103
3.
The Metaphysical Problem
107
3.1.
A Plurality of Comparisons
107
3.2.
Criteria for Determining the Appropriate Comparison
112
4.
The Problem of Overdetermination
117
4.1.
When Death Would Have Occurred Soon From a Different Cause uy
4.2.
The Inheritance Strategy and the Problem of the Terminus
120
4.3.
Overall Losses in Dying
12y
4.4.
The Previous Gain Account
136
XU CONTENTS
4.5.
Discounting Misfortunes for Previous Gains
140
5.
Overall Lifelong Fortune
145
5./.
The Standard for Assessing Fortune
145
5.2.
A Hierarchy of Being?
159
5.3.
The Overall Fortune of Those Who Die in Infancy
162
6.
The Deaths of Fetuses and Infants
165
6.1.
The Time-Relative Interest Account
165
6.2.
Narrative Unity, Retroactive Effects, Desert, and Desire
174
7.
A Paradox
185
3.
KILLING
189
1.
The Wrongness of Killing and the Badness of Death I
89
1.1. Two Accounts
189
1.2.
The Killing of Animals
194
2.
Animals and Severely Cognitively Impaired Human Beings
203
2.1.
The Options
203
2.2.
Membership in the Human Species
209
2.3.
Comembership in a Species as a Special Relation
217
2.4.
Convergent Assimilation
228
3.
Equality and Respect
232
3.1.
The Time-Relative Interest Account
232
3.2.
The Requirement of Respect
240
3.3.
The Basis of the Worth of Persons
251
4.
BEGINNINGS
267
1.
Early Abortion
267
2.
Late Abortion
269
3.
Prenatal Harm
280
4.
Is a Later Abortion Worse?
288
5.
Time-Relative Interests and Adaptation
294
6.
Potential
302
6.1.
Potential and Identity
302
6.2.
Potential as a Basis for Moral Status
308
6.3.
Potential, Cognitive Impairment, and Animals
316
7.
The Sanctity of Human Life
329
8.
Infanticide
338
8.1.
Abortion and Infanticide
338
8.2.
Are Infants "Replaceable?"
345
9.
Abortion as the Denial of Life-Support
362
9.1.
The Argument
362
9.2.
Responsibility for the Fetus's Need for Aid
364
9.3.
Parental Responsibility
373
9.4.
Killing and Letting Die
378
9.5.
The Dependent Child Case
392
10.
Abortion and Self-Defense
398
10.1.
Self-Defense Against a Nonresponsible Threat
398
10.2.
Proportionality, Third-party Intervention, and Forfeiture
411
10.3.
The Decisive Asymmetry
418
Contents xiii
5.
ENDINGS
423
ι.
When Do We Die, or Cease to Exist?
423
1.1. Two Concepts of Death
423
1.2.
Brain Death
426
1.3.
Persistent Vegetative State and Deep Coma
443
1.4.
Anencephalic Infants
430
2.
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
455
2.1.
From Suicide to Euthanasia
455
2.2.
The Sanctity of Life, Again
464
2.3.
Respect for the Worth of Persons 4J3
2.4.
Nonvoluntary Euthanasia
485
3.
The Withering Away of the Self
493
3.1.
The Metaphysics of Progressive Dementia
493
3.2.
The Moral Authority of Advance Directives
496
NOTES
505
REFERENCES
521
INDEX OF CASES
531
GENERAL INDEX
533 |
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