Essays by Topic - Essays on Literature, Essays on Music, Essays on Poetry, Philosophy Essays, the Myth of Sisyphus, a Defense of Abortion (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 138. Not illustrated. Chapters: Essays on Literature, Essays on Music, Essays on Poetry, Philosophy Essays, the Myth of Sisyphus, a Defense of Abortion, Two Dogmas of Empiricism, on Denoting, Death of the Author, the Unreality of Time, on the Freedom of the Will, Manifesto of Futurist Musicians, Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast, the Last Messiah, the Symbolist Movement in Literature, Position Paper, Mad Pain and Martian Pain, the Resistance to Theory, Famine, Affluence, and Morality, Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool, Four Dissertations, the Heresy of Paraphrase, H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, Epic Pooh, Poetry as Confession, Boys' Weeklies, Essay on the Origin of Languages, de Providentia, Function and Concept, on Bullshit, Palladis Tamia, a New Refutation of Time, the Point of View of My Work as an Author, Minds, Machines and Godel, Introduction to Metaphysics, de Brevitate Vitae, Pornoviolence, What Is Literature?, de Libero Arbitrio Diatribe Sive Collatio, on Truth, de Vita Beata, the Temptation of the Impossible, Literature and Science, Humdrum and Harum-Scarum, the Perpetual Orgy, Compensation. Excerpt: A Defense of Abortion is a moral philosophical paper by Judith Jarvis Thomson first published in 1971. Granting for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life, Thomson uses thought experiments to argue for the moral permissibility of induced abortion. Her argument has many critics on both sides of the abortion debate, yet continues to receive defense. Thomson's imaginative examples and controversial conclusions have made A Defense of Abortion perhaps "the most widely reprinted essay in all of contemporary philosophy." In A Defense of Abortion, Thomson grants for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life, but defends the permissibility of abortion by appeal to a thought experiment: You ...