Moral status and human life : the case for children's superiority
"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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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. What is moral status and why does it matter?
- 2. How is moral status determined?
- 3. Selecting criteria of moral status
- 4. Problems in applying a multi-criterial approach
- 5. Applying a multi-criteria moral status test to adults and children
- 6. Legal, policy, and moral implications of children's superiority