Reviews
This book is a very precious work that contributes vigorously to philosophical research.
I highly recommend this collection to anyone interested in the potentiality debate at the margins of life’s beginnings and endings.
In sum, both for the richness of its content and for the challenging questions it raises, this volume offers an enjoyable reading about potentiality and its implications in debates concerning the beginning and end of life.
Lizza is exactly right about the importance of potentiality in bioethical debates about the status of forms of early human life and disputes about the understanding of death. His collection of essays examines reproduction, maternal-fetal relationship, embryo research, stem cell harvesting, organ procurement, and other end-of-life discussions. This book will help readers—scholars, medical practitioners, and the public—better understand and discuss these bioethical dilemmas.
Book Details
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: The Nature of Potentiality
1. Aristotle's Theory of Potentiality
2. Dispositions and Potentialities
3. The Paradoxes of Potentiality
4. Physical Possibility and
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: The Nature of Potentiality
1. Aristotle's Theory of Potentiality
2. Dispositions and Potentialities
3. The Paradoxes of Potentiality
4. Physical Possibility and Potentiality in Ethics
5. Abortion: Listening to the Middle
Part II: Potentiality at the Beginning of Life
6. Persons with Potential
7. The Moral Status of Stem Cells
8. Potential
9. Abortion and the Margins of Personhood
10. Revisiting the Argument from Fetal Potential
Part III: Potentiality at the End of Life
11. Are DCD Doners Dead?
12. The Irreversibility of Death: Metaphysical, Physiological, Medical or Ethical?
13. On the Ethical Relevance of Active versus Passive Potentiality
List of Contributors
Index