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Abortion and the moral significance of merely possible persons : finding middle ground in hard cases
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ISBN: 9789048137916 9789048137923 Year: 2010 Volume: 107 Publisher: Dordrecht New York Springer

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This book has two main goals. The first is to give an account, called Variabilism, of the moral significance of merely possible persons persons who, relative to a particular circumstance, or possible future or world, could but in fact never do exist. The second is to use Variabilism to illuminate abortion. According to Variabilism, merely possible persons just like anyone else matter morally but matter variably. Where we understand that a person incurs a loss whenever agents could have created more wellbeing for that person and instead create less, Variabilism asserts that the moral significance of any loss is a function of where that loss is incurred in relation to the person who incurs it. That is: a loss incurred at a world where the person who incurs that loss does or will exist has full more significance, according to Variabilism, while a loss incurred by that same person at a world where that person never exists at all has no moral significance whatsoever. Some other views deem all merely possible persons and all of their losses to matter morally. Still other views deem no merely possible persons and none of their losses to matter morally. Variabilism, instead, takes a middle ground between these two extreme positions. It thus opens the door to a certain middle ground on procreative choice in general and abortion in particular. Thus, given that, for persons, thinking and coming into existence come together, Variabilism supports the argument that the early abortion is ordinarily permissible when it is what the woman wants. That is so, since the loss incurred when, as an effect of the early abortion, a given person is never brought into existence to begin with has no moral significance at all. In contrast, the late abortion is ordinarily subject to a different analysis. For the loss incurred in that case has full moral significance, according to Variabilism, since it is incurred at a world where the person who incurs it already exists.


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The Internationalization of Law and Legal Education
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ISBN: 9781402094941 1402094930 9781402094934 9048181402 9786611986438 1281986437 1402094949 Year: 2008 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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The internationalization of commerce and contemporary life has led to a globalization of legal standards and practices that is beginning to be reflected in legal education. This volume gathers the insights of leading legal scholars from numerous jurisdictions to consider how the culture and the education of their own lawyers serve or should serve the new international reality. Law firms, law schools, universities, courts and other legal institutions must make themselves more "international" to support the national interests of their clients and governments better. This requires new attitudes, new legal rules and new forms of practical instruction. The essays collected in this volume explore the reality of legal globalization and suggest some ways in which the emerging multinational and multicultural legal order could be made more just and effective.

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Law. --- International & Foreign Law/Comparative Law. --- Law Theory/Law Philosophy. --- European Law/Public International Law. --- Law, general. --- Professional & Vocational Education. --- Law --- Comparative law. --- Public law. --- Droit --- Droit comparé --- Droit public --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- International law --Study and teaching. --- Law and globalization. --- Law --Study and teaching. --- Law and globalization --- International law --- Law, General & Comparative --- Law, Politics & Government --- Study and teaching --- Study and teaching. --- Globalization and law --- Private international law. --- Conflict of laws. --- International law. --- Public international law. --- Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law. --- Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History. --- Public International Law. --- Jurisprudence --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Legislation --- Law of nations --- Nations, Law of --- Public international law --- Comparative jurisprudence --- Comparative legislation --- Jurisprudence, Comparative --- Law, Comparative --- Legislation, Comparative --- Choice of law --- Conflict of laws --- Intermunicipal law --- International law, Private --- International private law --- Private international law --- Legal polycentricity --- Civil law --- Globalization --- Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law . --- Public International Law . --- Law—Philosophy. --- Professional education. --- Vocational education. --- Education, Vocational --- Vocational training --- Work experience --- Education --- Technical education --- Education, Professional --- Career education --- Education, Higher

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