Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-lrblm Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-09T03:59:57.070Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Abortion, Contraception, Infanticide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Philip E. Devine
Philip E. Devine
Affiliation:
University of Scranton
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Discussion
Information
Philosophy , Volume 58 , Issue 226 , October 1983 , pp. 513 - 520
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1983

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Parenthetical references are to L. W. Sumner, Abortion and Moral Theory (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981).

2 Germain Grisez, Abortion (New York: Corpus, 1970), 438, writes: ‘My view that the Connecticut [anti-contraception] statute [struck down in Griswold v. Connecticut] was unjust is based, not on a morally favorable judgment of contraception, but on the view that the use of contraception does not violate any person's rights nor in any clear and proximate way injure the common purposes of civil society’. For Grisez's views on contraception, see his Contraception and the Natural Law (Milwaukee, 1964).

3 Philip E. Devine, The Ethics of Homicide (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978), Chs. 2-3, esp. sees. 12, 14. (I discuss the question of a cut-off point at pp. 82-88.) I have also confronted the utilitarian approach to the ethics of homicide in ‘Homicide Revisited’, Philosophy 55 No. 213 (July 1980), 329-347, discussion of abortion at pp. 338-341.

4 I am indebted to Harold W. Baillie for emphasizing to me the importance of the concept of a hexis in Aristotle's outlook.

5 In ‘The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism’, Philosophy 53, No. 203 (October 1978), 481-505, and in my rejoinder to Bart Gruzalski, in Ethics & Animals, June 1981.

6 For a critique of mechanistic biology, see Charles Taylor, The Explanation of Behaviour (London: Routledge & Regan Paul, 1965), esp. Pt I.

7 I make both sorts of argument in The Ethics of Homicide.

8 University of Scranton