Pojem osoby v diskusi o etice potratů

• Authors: Jirsa, Jakub

Title variants

EN

The concept of person in the debate on the ethics of abortion

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Much of the recent debate over the moral permissibility of abortion focuses on the question of whether the foetus is or is not a person, i.e. the only entity endowed with moral rights including the right to life. The article traces this line of thought in several key figures in the debate (Thomson, Tooley, Warren and Brody). However, I consider this way of argumentation as both inappropriate and misleading; in the second half of the article I offer arguments against using the concept of person in this debate.

Keywords

EN

abortion; person; examples in ethics

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 831-846
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jirsa, Jakub

• Filosofický časopis, redakce, Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic