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Krantz provides a defense of traditional, human-centered ethics against Peter Singer's ethical theory. Singer favors a Copernican revolution in ethics because he thinks our traditional ethics has collapsed under pressure from medical technology and from advances in the biological understanding of our fellow animals. For nearly thirty years he has argued that the boundaries of the human lifespan and of the human species are so unclear that we must abandon our views that human beings have a special dignity and that the taking of innocent human life is always wrong.
Against this Krantz argues that in today's world, human life has been cheapened and the values of the marketplace have begun to govern medical care and organ donation, birth and death. In fact, this is just a foretaste of the world to come if Singer's ethical theory succeeds in replacing traditional human-centered ethics. What is required is, not the abandonment of human dignity and of the sanctity of human life, but rather a renewed understanding of how principles based on these ideas can be applied in the twenty-first century. Scholars, students, and general readers involved with ethical and contemporary philosophy issues will find this book interesting.
Table des matières
Introduction
The Goal of Ethics
The Source of Moral Value
The Role of Reason in Ethics
The Principle of Equal Consideration of Interests
Why Singer's Principle of Equal Consideration is a Threat to Morality and Human Values
On Human Dignity
Bibliography
Index
A propos de l'auteur
SUSAN LUFKIN KRANTZ is Professor of Philosophy at St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH. She has translated and edited the English edition of Brentano's lectures on natural theology entitled On the Existence of God (1987).
