The Nonidentity Problem and Bioethics: A Natural Law Perspective

IF 0.2 4区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
J. Delaney
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Abstract

Technology has significantly improved our ability to predict the traits of our offspring. This technology and the knowledge it affords us have enormous implications for bioethics. When we make a decision to bring (or not to bring) a person into existence, and we are concerned with the welfare of the child herself, we are left in the awkward position of comparing existence with nonexistence. This is the basis of the nonidentity problem, a topic that has generated a large amount of philosophical literature. To my knowledge, however, no one has attempted a comprehensive analysis of this literature from a natural law perspective. This paper attempts to begin such an analysis. If what I say is right, we can see how natural law theory helps explain some of our most basic moral thinking in this very perplexing area of normative ethics. This, I hope, will demonstrate just one of the values of natural law theory for bioethics.
非同一性问题与生命伦理学:自然法视角
科技极大地提高了我们预测后代特征的能力。这项技术及其提供给我们的知识对生物伦理学有着巨大的影响。当我们决定让(或不让)一个人存在时,当我们考虑到孩子本身的幸福时,我们就陷入了将存在与不存在进行比较的尴尬境地。这是产生了大量哲学文献的非同一性问题的基础。然而,据我所知,还没有人试图从自然法的角度对这些文献进行全面的分析。本文试图开始这样的分析。如果我说的是对的,我们可以看到自然法则理论是如何帮助解释我们在规范伦理学这个非常复杂的领域中的一些最基本的道德思想的。我希望,这将证明自然法理论对生命伦理学的价值之一。
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