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Bird on an Ethics Wire
Margaret Somerville
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Description for Bird on an Ethics Wire
Hardback. An exploration of the urgent need to rebalance individuals' unfettered freedom to choose, especially regarding birth and death. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
Our physical ecosystem is not indestructible and we have obligations to hold it in trust for future generations. The same is true of our metaphysical ecosystem - the values, principles, attitudes, beliefs, and shared stories on which we have founded our society. In Bird on an Ethics Wire, Margaret Somerville explores the values needed to maintain a world that reasonable people would want to live in and pass on to their descendants. Somerville addresses the conflicts between people who espouse "progressive" values and those who uphold "traditional" ones by casting her attention on the debates surrounding "birth" (abortion and reproductive ... Read more
Our physical ecosystem is not indestructible and we have obligations to hold it in trust for future generations. The same is true of our metaphysical ecosystem - the values, principles, attitudes, beliefs, and shared stories on which we have founded our society. In Bird on an Ethics Wire, Margaret Somerville explores the values needed to maintain a world that reasonable people would want to live in and pass on to their descendants. Somerville addresses the conflicts between people who espouse "progressive" values and those who uphold "traditional" ones by casting her attention on the debates surrounding "birth" (abortion and reproductive ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773546400
SKU
V9780773546400
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About Margaret Somerville
Margaret Somerville is a professor in the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Medicine at McGill University.
Reviews for Bird on an Ethics Wire
"Somerville has distinguished herself as a singular voice. Exhibiting what thoughtful, scholarly interjections in public debate ought to look like, this book provides a model for a younger generation of emerging public intellectuals." James K.A. Smith, Calvin College and editor of Comment magazine