The Variables of Moral Capacity
Moral capacity is an important feature of what it means to be human. In this volume, the contributors have taken on the daunting task of trying to distinguish between legal and moral capacity. This distinction is difficult at times for clinicians, philoso
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INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF ETHICS, LAW, AND THE NEW MEDICINE Founding Editors DAVID C. THOMASMA† DAVID N. WEISSTUB, Université de Montréal, Canada THOMASINE KIMBROUGH KUSHNER, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Editor DAVID N. WEISSTUB, Université de Montréal, Canada
Editorial Board TERRY CARNEY, University of Sydney, Australia MARCUS DÜWELL, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands SØREN HOLM, University of Cardiff, Wales,United Kingdom GERRIT K. KIMSMA, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands DAVID NOVAK, University of Toronto, Canada EDMUND D. PELLEGRINO, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., U.S.A. DOM RENZO PEGORARO, Fondazione Lanza and University of Padua, Italy DANIEL P. SULMASY, Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers, New York, U.S.A. LAWRENCE TANCREDI, New York University, New York, U.S.A.
VOLUME 21
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
THE VARIABLES OF MORAL CAPACITY
Edited by
David C. Thomasma† Loyola University Chicago Medical Center, Maywood, IL, U.S.A. and
David N. Weisstub University of Montreal School of Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTRIBUTORS .................................................................................................... ix PREFACE .................................................................................................................. 1
PART ONE: Challenges of Moral Capacity CHAPTER 1: Choices, Autonomy, and Moral Capacity ....................................9 - 22 David C. Thomasma CHAPTER 2: Self-Conceptions, Agency, and the Value of Individual Persons ..............................................................................................................23 - 41 Jeffrey Blustein CHAPTER 3: Kohlberg and the Structural-Developmental Approach to Moral Psychology ........................................................................................................43 - 56 Lawrence Walker CHAPTER 4: Morality and Selfhood : Contributions from Moral Psychology ........................................................................................................57 - 77 Karl Hennig CHAPTER 5: Developing Moral Capacity from Childhood to Young Adulthood..........
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