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- W150409077 abstract "It has now become something of a commonplace among pro-life writers to claim that the question of when human life begins is settled by empirical science. While there is a sense in which this is true, in a broader sense the claim is not quite accurate. Properly speaking, this question belongs not to the empirical sciences, but to ontology. Therefore, a serious answer to the question—while it will certainly have to incorporate the findings of empirical embryology—must come from the branch of speculative philosophy that Christopher Tollefsen has labeled “philosophical embryology.”1 In what follows, I examine the question of when human life begins from a neo-Aristotelian perspective. In my view, the basic principles of Aristotle’s metaphysics inform an account of human life (and the human person) that offers the best explanation of the available phenomena. This account—the substance account of the human person—can fully incorporate the contemporary findings of empirical embryology, while also recognizing the essential uniqueness of rational human nature. We need an accurate answer to the question of when human life beings to inform our practical reasoning about the ethics of abortion and the treatment of human embryos. However, it is important to recognize that those practical considerations follow from the speculative conclusions and not vice versa. We should not begin from any practical position—including a pro-life position—and attempt to reason back to a theoretical account of the embryo to vindicate that position. Instead, I think we will discover that the best available metaphysics results in a view of the human person that naturally leads to the pro-life conclusion. While my ultimate goal is to provide the most compelling contemporary account of philosophical embryology, it will be useful to consider the historical question of how Aristotle (and his followers, such as St. Thomas) viewed the embryo in order to forestall certain common" @default.
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- W150409077 title "The Ontogenesis of the Human Person: A Neo-Aristotelian View" @default.
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