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Review Of "Truly Human Enhancement: A Philosophical Defense Of Limits ", James Mcbain
Review Of "Truly Human Enhancement: A Philosophical Defense Of Limits ", James Mcbain
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Review of "Truly Human Enhancement: A Philosophical Defense of Limits" by Nicholas Agar.
Moral Callings And The Duty To Have Children: A Response To Jeff Mitchell, James Mcbain
Moral Callings And The Duty To Have Children: A Response To Jeff Mitchell, James Mcbain
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Jeff Mitchell argues that the good reason for having children is that parenthood is a “moral calling” and that one should heed the call out of a sense of duty and responsibility for the good of society. I argue such a “moral calling” account is mistaken, first, in that Mitchell problematically assumes the “basic intuition” is mistaken and, second, it fails to provide the epistemic conditions for the warranted belief that one would probably make a good parent (a central consideration of Mitchell’s). Thus, such a “moral calling” rationale for the having of children is not superior to rationales that …