The value of potential life - Different Views
- Created by: hiddengongju
- Created on: 25-04-15 18:32
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- Different views
- Sanctity of life
- The idea that life is scared and holy, traditionally understood as given by God
- Kant
- He shows a secular idea of the sanctity of life
- He states that personhood is based on reason, as consciousness and reason are not properties of potential life, then it values diminishes accordingly
- Peter Singer
- Called for a shift from the sanctity of life to something more universal
- This being the value of life
- Singer did not create a ring fence around humanity, instead talks about the value of all living things
- Process of evolution
- Some scientist will argue even though the fetus does not have person status or human rights
- The fetus is part of the process of 'survival of the fittest', this does not mean it has no value
- It is the process of evolution and the fetus within it - whether it survives or not - giving the fetus value
- Sanctity of life
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