Classic Pro-Choice Thought Experiments and African Communitarianism
I analyse two classic pro-choice thought experiments in the Anglo-American philosophical literature in Thomson's Violinist Case and Tooley's Kitten Serum Case, in light of two prominent African normative theories. Though each of these cases is designed to generate pro-choice intuitions, I...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Bioethics
Year: 2025, Volume: 39, Issue: 9, Pages: 842-849 |
| IxTheo Classification: | BS Traditional African religions NCH Medical ethics VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
African bioethics
B pro-choice thought experiments B Abortion B cross-cultural bioethics |
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| Summary: | I analyse two classic pro-choice thought experiments in the Anglo-American philosophical literature in Thomson's Violinist Case and Tooley's Kitten Serum Case, in light of two prominent African normative theories. Though each of these cases is designed to generate pro-choice intuitions, I suggest they do not do so nearly as clearly when African normative theories are in view. Furthermore, even where they might yield a pro-choice verdict, they do so for very different reasons. That African ethics, which is often labelled communitarian, differs from what one typically finds in the Anglo-American normative tradition is hardly a new insight. However, that these differences might undermine the universality of pro-choice thought experiments about abortion in Anglo-American bioethics has yet to receive significant attention. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-8519 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/bioe.70016 |
