Society of Vineyard Scholars
Annual Conference => SVS 2015: Thinking with the Church, Thinking with the Vineyard => Previous Conferences => In Depth: Ethics => Topic started by: James Mumford on May 07, 2015, 06:54 PM
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Intellectual stalemate in the abortion debate can be traced in part to its being framed as a standoff between religion and secular philosophy. While the former is thought to generate a broadly ‘pro-life’ position, the latter is associated with more ‘pro-choice’ thinking. This essay attempts to break free of this framing by criticising the philosophy informing ‘pro-choice’ positions, but not by resorting immediately to religious arguments but rather by drawing upon a rival philosophical tradition – the movement within twentieth and twenty-first Continental philosophy which was and is phenomenology. A phenomenological approach to human ‘emergence’, and in particular an application of the framework Heidegger developed in Being and Time (1927), leads to a radical questioning of whether contemporary English-speaking beginning-of-life ethics have adequately taken into account the way human beings come forth in the world.
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