A Critique of Scanlon’s Contractualism
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DOI: 10.1017/can.2023.9
Abstract: Part of T. M. Scanlon’s project in What We Owe to Each Other (1998) is to explain the importance and priority of moral reasons. But Scanlon also argues that this priority of moral reasons is… read more here.
Keywords: philosophy; scanlon contractualism; critique scanlon; scanlon ... See more keywords
Commentary on ‘Moral reasons to edit the human genome’: this is not the moral imperative we are looking for
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DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2018-105316
Abstract: After reading Savulescu and colleagues,1 one ought to be in no doubt that human heritable genome editing (HGE) is a ‘moral imperative’: to cure disease, reduce inequalities, improve public health and protect future generations. They make… read more here.
Keywords: moral imperative; human genome; commentary moral; reasons edit ... See more keywords