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| Abortion: Abortion is the medical or surgical intervention to terminate a pregnancy, usually for personal, health or social reasons. _____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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John Stuart Mill on Abortion - Dictionary of Arguments
Singer I 307 Abortion/J. St. Mill/P. Singer: Mill's "very simple principle" can be found in J. St. Mill 1957(1). Singer I 131 Principle/Mill: the only purpose for which violence against a member of a civilized community can be used against his or her will is to avert harm from others. >Violence, >Coercion, >Laws, >Law, >Society, >Community, >Ethics, >Morals. P. Singer: this is often mentioned when it comes to whether laws should be applied to "crimes without victims" (> homosexuality). Abortion/P. Singer: The discussion about it is all about whether it is a "crime without victims".(2) >Crime, >Criminal law. 1. J. St. Mill, On Liberty, 3rd edition, London, 1957, p. 24. 2. Edwin Schur, Crimes Without Victims. NJ 1965._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Mill I John St. Mill A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, London 1843 German Edition: Von Namen, aus: A System of Logic, London 1843 In Eigennamen, Ursula Wolf, Frankfurt/M. 1993 Mill II J. St. Mill Utilitarianism: 1st (First) Edition Oxford 1998 SingerP I Peter Singer Practical Ethics (Third Edition) Cambridge 2011 SingerP II P. Singer The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically. New Haven 2015 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-27