MORAL DILEMMAS IN REAL LIFE Current Issues in Applied Ethics
Moral Dilemmas in Real Life purports to supply ways of thinking of, perhaps even dealing with, the ins and outs of ethical argument.such argument. The world today presents both individuals and communities with situations, which demand moral and ethical de
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Moral Dilemmas in Real Life Current Issues in Applied Ethics
Managing Editors: Francisco Laporta, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain Aleksander Peczenik†, University of Lund, Sweden Frederick Schauer, Harvard University, U.S.A.
MORAL DILEMMAS IN REAL LIFE
Law and Philosophy Library VOLUME 74
Managing Editors FRANCISCO J. LAPORTA, Department of Law, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain ALEKSANDER PECZENIK†, Department of Law, University of Lund, Sweden FREDERICK SCHAUER, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. Former Managing Editors AULIS AARNIO, MICHAEL D. BAYLES†, CONRAD D. JOHNSON†, ALAN MABE Editorial Advisory Board AULIS AARNIO, Research Institute for Social Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland ZENON BAN´KOWSKI, Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh PAOLO COMANDUCCI, University of Genua, Italy ERNESTO GARZÓN VALDÉS, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz JOHN KLEINIG, Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York NEIL MacCORMICK, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium WOJCIECH SADURSKI, European University Institute, Department of Law, Florence, Italy ROBERT S. SUMMERS, School of Law, Cornell University CARL WELLMAN, Department of Philosophy, Washington University
MORAL DILEMMAS IN REAL LIFE Current Issues in Applied Ethics
by OVADIA EZRA Tel Aviv University, Israel
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
vii
Preface
ix
A. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND PUBLIC DUTIES
1
1. Privacy and the Public Sphere
5
2. The Obligation of the State toward Individuals
15
3. Public Security vs. the Right to “Be Let Alone”
25
4. Freedom of Expression in Academia and the Media
37
B. MEDICAL ETHICS
51
5. Mercy Death or Killing
55
6. Donating or Selling Organs
69
7. Genetic Engineering and Reproduction
81
C. PARENTHOOD AND THE FAMILY
97
8. Rights of Relatives and Generations
101
9. Procreation after Death
115
10. Babies as Commodities
127
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D. PUNISHMENT
141
11. Punishment of S
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