Philosophy 2715F/G Lecture 5: week 3
9 Mar 2017
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Abortion: we looked at determining what determines if human life valuable, now we will look at article by marquis. Justifies killing infants or those with profound challenges. Robbing them of their project/plans in life, not as much about robbing them of their biological life. Evidence: why should we think this is right, explains why we think killing is so bad. Incompatible with the view that it is only wrong to kill humans. Goes with idea that many people express their dying regret as not completing a life project. P1: if a fetus has a valuable future then it is wrong to kill it. Who is the fetus valuable to? (society, the family, the fetus itself etc. ) Sumner continued: morally relevant, guides our encounters with novel life forms. If creatures are capable of enjoyment/suffering, we must accord them some degree of moral status. If creatures are rational but lacking affect, we do not accord moral status (cid:862)o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)i(cid:272) (cid:272)o(cid:373)pute(cid:396)(cid:863)
