BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260407T212006Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20130906T151500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20130906T171500 SUMMARY:Founding a family 'well': A virtue-based approach to the ethics of procreation UID:20260409T045702Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-r5qzs TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:55 Wellington Road\, Clayton\, Australia\, 3800 DESCRIPTION:

Abstract: There are two main goals of this paper: (1) to offer a detailed discussion of some of the central components of a virtue-based approach to the ethics of procreation (i.e. the issue of whether and when one is morally permitted to bring new life into existence)\, including how this view compares to deontological and consequentialist (e.g. benatar 1997) approaches that currently dominate this area of philosophy\; and (2) from this theoretical foundation\, an assessment of the common reasons for having children (see e.g. Christine Overall 2012 and Saul Smilansky 1995).
While much more work needs to be done in developing a robust virtue-based approach to procreative ethics\, there is good reason to suggest that the reasons typically on offer in the philosophical literature in favour of having children are poor ones. Thus\, one of the main (albeit tentative) conclusions of this paper is that good (virtuous) prospective parents have good reason to consider adopting already existing children as their mode of founding a family\, since bringing new life into existence may not be in line with their founding a family well.

ORGANIZER;CN=Monima Chadha: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR