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Croatian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 19 No. 55, 2019.

Original scientific paper

Procreative Beneficence toward Whom?

Sergio Filippo Magni orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-9920-8033 ; University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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Abstract

This article deals with a discussion of Savulescu’s impersonal version of the Principle of Procreative Beneficence and its relationship with a person-affecting Principle of Harm in order to evaluate the cases of selection of which child to have. It aims to show some problems in Savulescu’s attempt to arrange the two principles (the conflict between beneficence and harm, the limitation of beneficence to pre-conception selection, the extension of benefi cence to different quantity people choice), and to propose an alternative version of Procreative Beneficence (a narrow person-affecting version), in order to avoid these problems.

Keywords

Procreative beneficence; selection; impersonal obligations; person-affecting obligations; possible people.

Hrčak ID:

253595

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/253595

Publication date:

31.3.2019.

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