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- Title
CONCEIVING SELVES: What Pregnancy Can Teach Us about Ethics and Piety.
- Abstract
Many ethics instructors turn to peculiar examples and cases to highlight ethical concerns about autonomy and collective goods. While these efforts are respectable, they lamentably reinforce the valorization of independence and the opposition of individuality to collectivity that are too prevalent in ethics today. Attending to the event of pregnancy would help overcome these troubles. By concentrating on pregnancy, we can better appreciate the dependence that is integral to the human experience, the discrete value of each individual, the possible noncompetition between individual and society, and the importance of appreciating the sources of our existence. Religious ethicists would do well to think more about pregnancy, a condition which is sui generis and yet also illustrative of the fundamental interdependence of human beings.
- Subjects
PREGNANCY; PIETY; PROFESSIONAL ethics of teachers; ETHICS; HUMAN beings; PATIENT autonomy; ETHICISTS
- Publication
Journal of Religious Ethics, 2021, Vol 49, Issue 2, p337
- ISSN
0384-9694
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jore.12354