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Re-defining pro-life: Why a consiste...

Derynck, Tracy Laura.

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Re-defining pro-life: Why a consistent ethics of life should not oppose abortion.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Re-defining pro-life: Why a consistent ethics of life should not oppose abortion./
作者:	Derynck, Tracy Laura.
面頁冊數:	300 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-06, Section: A, page: 2177.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International73-06A.
標題:	Religion, Philosophy of. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR81761
ISBN:	9780494817612

Re-defining pro-life: Why a consistent ethics of life should not oppose abortion.
Derynck, Tracy Laura.

Re-defining pro-life: Why a consistent ethics of life should not oppose abortion. - 300 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-06, Section: A, page: 2177.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Calgary (Canada), 2011.

This thesis seeks to establish a philosophical foundation on which to argue that actually, pro-choice and pro-life should be understood as complementary terms, rather than as opposing terms. It discusses different ways of situating the term life as ethically-significant, and develops a definition of an ethics of life that is independent of a pro-choice or anti-choice stance on abortion. Drawing upon the notion of a consistent ethics of life as a fruitful place to seek out a broader meaning of the term pro-life, it first considers two anti-choice attempts at constructing such an ethics. The first is a conservative Catholic ethics of life, as presented in John Paul II's Evangelium Vitae and in Joseph Cardinal Bernardin's seamless garment conception of ethics. The second is based in pro-life feminism, which argues that through abortion, women capitulate to a patriarchal logic that violates the biological orientation of women toward nurturing and relationality.

ISBN: 9780494817612Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017774
Religion, Philosophy of.

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