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A Discussion of Capacities and Their Relation to Human Personhood

January 31, 2014/58 Comments/in Personhood /by Clinton Wilcox

There has been some confusion on some of my articles as to what it means for humans to have an inherent nature as rational agents, so I’d like to take the time now to expound upon just what is meant by an inherent nature, as well as the concept of capacities and what they have […]

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A Response to the Spectrum Argument

January 21, 2014/35 Comments/in Personhood /by Clinton Wilcox

On Patheos, pro-choice blogger Bob Seidensticker has formulated an argument for abortion that he calls the “Spectrum Argument” for abortion. First, I’d just like to take a moment to say that it’s refreshing to find a pro-choice blogger who actually attempts to make a logical argument for his position, rather than the rhetoric, demonizing of […]

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The Argument from Identity

January 9, 2014/321 Comments/in Personhood /by Clinton Wilcox

I have previously explained two good arguments for the pro-life position, the Substance View and the Future of Value arguments. I would like to share with you a third. It’s an argument that Alexander Pruss has termed an identity-based argument. Stephen Napier defends a similar argument which he has termed the Unity argument, but my exposition of this argument […]

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A Critique of Mary Anne Warren’s On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, Part V

September 25, 2013/33 Comments/in Personhood /by Clinton Wilcox

I have spent four parts in this series responding to Warren’s argument that the unborn cannot be considered persons. Warren wrote her essay in 1973 in a publication called The Monist, but in 1982 she re-published the essay with an added postscript. One of the objections she was receiving to her paper is that it would also justify infanticide as […]

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A Critique of Mary Anne Warren’s On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, Part IV

September 11, 2013/2 Comments/in Personhood /by Clinton Wilcox

In part one, I examined Warren’s claim about humanity, in part two I examined Warren’s qualifications for personhood and showed why the unborn qualify, and in part three I examined Warren’s two questions about personhood and showed that her position fails to disqualify the unborn from personhood. In this article, I will examine her argument […]

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A Critique of Mary Anne Warren’s On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, Part III

August 28, 2013/1 Comment/in Personhood /by Clinton Wilcox

In part one of this series, I examined Warren’s definition of humanity, and in part two I examined her argument about what a person is and showed why the unborn certainly qualify. This article will be the third part of five, in which I’ll examine Warren’s claims about the right to life. 3. Fetal Development […]

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On the Brain Requirement for Personhood

August 27, 2013/19 Comments/in Personhood /by Kelsey Hazzard

[Today’s guest post by Timothy Hsiao is part of our paid blogging program.] Pro-choice philosophers have offered various laundry lists of criteria that all purport to list the properties relevant to being a person, i.e. an intrinsically valuable being worthy of moral concern and protection. One such proposal holds that the possession of a brain […]

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A Critique of Mary Anne Warren’s On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, Part II

August 20, 2013/22 Comments/in Personhood /by Clinton Wilcox

In part one of this examination, I showed that the pro-life position is not logically incoherent in considering the unborn to be human beings, both in the genetic sense and the moral sense. In this article, I’ll examine Warren’s criteria for personhood and show how the unborn certainly qualify. 2. Defining the moral community. Warren […]

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A Critique of Mary Anne Warren’s On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, Part I

August 14, 2013/11 Comments/in Personhood /by Clinton Wilcox

I recently gave an in-depth critique of one of the most important articles ever written on the abortion issue. I would like to turn my attention now to another popular essay written by Mary Anne Warren called On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion. Whereas Thomson argued that pro-choice people can assume the unborn […]

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Speaking a Universal Language for Life

July 31, 2013/5 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard

[Today’s guest post by Shannon Morrow is part of our paid blogging program.] Today’s world is truly global. The past hundred years have seen incredible improvements in communication and transportation that have allowed us to interact with people all over the world, from different upbringings, backgrounds, religions, and cultures. We are interacting with people completely […]

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