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Begetting : what does it mean to create a child? /

Few assumptions, argues Mara van der Lugt, are so stagnant, so rigid, so deeply walled in as the assumption that the decision to have children is by default a good thing, that having children is one of the most elevated aspects of human activity and, indeed, of the human condition. This book is conc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lugt, Mara van der, 1986- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2024].
Subjects:
Human reproduction > Moral and ethical aspects.
Family planning > Moral and ethical aspects.
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / Religious.
Table of Contents:
  • Begetting
  • Paradigms
  • Cain
  • Anti-natalism
  • Harm
  • The world
  • Uncertainty
  • Consent
  • The ethics of creation
  • For the good of the planet
  • For the good of the child
  • Begetting in the age of climate change
  • The personal desire narrative
  • The biological narrative
  • The parental maturity narrative
  • The romantic narrative
  • The virtue narrative
  • The entitlement narrative
  • Reasons
  • Genes
  • Better reasons
  • Love (for one's partner)
  • Love (for the child)
  • Wanting, having, hoping
  • Urges-or agency?
  • Courage and virtue
  • Meaning and regret
  • Givenness
  • Gratitude.