Debating procreation : is it wrong to reproduce? / David Benatar, David Wasserman.

  • Benatar, David
Date:
[2015]
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Publication/Creation

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Physical description

vi, 269 pages ; 21 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introducing anti-natalism -- The asymmetry argument -- The quality of life argument -- The misanthropic argument -- Contra procreation -- Better to have lived and lost? -- Against anti-natalism -- The good of the future child and the parent-child relationship as goals of procreation -- Impersonal constraints on procreation -- Alternatives to impersonal approaches: birthrights and role-based duties.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 9780199333554
  • 0199333556
  • 9780199333547
  • 0199333548