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Don Marquis (/ ˈ m ɑːr k w ɪ s / MAR-kwis; November 2, 1935 - September 13, 2022) was an American philosopher and deontologist whose main academic interests were in ethics and medical ethics. Marquis was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas until his death.
- Potential People
- Contraception
- When This Argument Allows Abortion
- The Argument Applied to Euthanasia and Suicide
This argument gets round any need to deal with the foetus as a potential personand to consider the rights of potential people.
Some people have claimed that this argument also shows that contraceptionis wrong, because contraception prevents beings having a 'future like ours'. The reply to this is that at the time that contraception is used there is no being in existence to be deprived of a 'future like ours'. However the argument would suggest that contraception is wrong w...
This argument seems to allow two cases where abortion would not be wrong: 1. abortion is not wrong where the foetus, if born, would be so handicapped that it would not be capable of having any future experiences (or at least none that it was aware of). 2. abortion is not wrong where the foetus, if born, would be so defective that all its experience...
The basic ideas in this argument can be used in considering euthanasia- and it's clear that this argument would permit some cases of euthanasia - for example where the person is in a permanent coma and is not going to have any future experiences. However when applying the argument in this case it's important to remember that the argument is not bas...
In Deprivations, futures and the wrongness of killing (this journal, December 2001) Donald Marquis, author of the future like ours argument, responds at length to this objection. In the present essay the focus of the debate shifts to the proper interpretation of the right not to be killed.
- M T Brown
- 2002
Oct 3, 2022 · Don Marquis, a philosopher who specialized in bioethics, died on September 13, 2022, at the age of 86. For most of his career, he was on the faculty of the University of Kansas. From 2007-2008, he was the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University.
Sep 14, 2022 · Professor Marquis was known for his work in biomedical ethics, especially for his article, “Why Abortion is Immoral,” which originally appeared in the Journal of Philosophy in 1989, and has since been widely anthologized.
Marquis’ Basic Argument: 1) It is morally wrong to deny anyone a future of value. 2) In most cases abortion denies the fetus a future of value. 3) So, in most cases abortion is morally wrong. The “most cases” refer to the fact that in some cases Marquis’ account would actually obligated us to perform an abortion.
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The standard counter-counter argument is that that previous person, before brain death, and this new person are not the same person. The notion of a personality requires a continuous experience of some kind. That means nobody would have been killed, the new person would just have been prevented.
