An African Ethics of Personhood and Bioethics

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An African Ethics of Personhood and Bioethics
An African Ethics of Personhood and Bioethics
Author : Motsamai Molefe
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Publisher : Springer Nature
Language : English
Release Date : 30 May 2020
ISBN : 9783030465193
Pages : 145 pages
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This book articulates an African conception of dignity in light of the salient axiological category of personhood in African cultures. The idea of personhood embodies a moral system for evaluating human lives exuding with virtue or ones that are morally excellent. This book argues that this idea of personhood embodies an under-explored conception of dignity, which accounts for it in terms of our capacity for the virtue of sympathy. It then proceeds to apply this personhood-based conception of dignity to bioethical questions, specifically, those of abortion and euthanasia. Regarding abortion, it concludes that it is impermissible since foetuses possess partial moral status. Regarding euthanasia, it argues that it is permissible for reasons revolving around avoiding the reversing of personhood. It also, though, minimally, touches on the questions regarding the mentally disabled and animals, to which it assigns lower moral status.

An African Ethics of Personhood and Bioethics

An African Ethics of Personhood and Bioethics by Motsamai Molefe

This book articulates an African conception of dignity in light of the salient axiological category of personhood in African cultures. The idea of personhood embodies a moral system for evaluating human lives exuding with virtue or ones that are morally excellent. This book argues that this idea of personhood embodies

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