Genethics Book

	Preface
	Introduction: Playing God	1
Pt. 1	Paradoxes
1	Wrongful Life: A Pure Genesis Problem	21
	Ethics and Genethics	21
	The Three Levels of Moral Discourse	24
	Suing for Being Born	26
	A Right Not to Be Born versus A Right to Be Born Healthy	29
	Legal Policy and the Suspension of Logic	33
	Philosophical Significance of Wrongful Life Cases	35
2	The Failure of Traditional Ethical Theories	39
	The Theoretical Ascent	39
	Contractors Deciding on Their Existence	41
	Respect for the Unconceived?	51
	Utility and Its Assignability	55
3	The Meta-ethical Deadlock	65
	The Methodological Ascent	65
	Two Levels of Reflective Equilibrium	70
	Impersonalism in Ethics versus Person-affecting Axiology	80
Pt. 2	Generocentrism
4	Existence	93
	The Agenda for Genethical Theory	93
	Actual versus Potential Persons	97
	The Paradox of Future Individuals	103
	The Slave Child: The Issue of Asymmetry	106
	Personalism and Asymmetry	111
	The Value of Life	115
5	Numbers	127
	The Politicization of Genesis Problems	127
	Do Numbers Count?	132
	Optimum Population Size--A Myth?	140
	Coordination and Distribution	153
6	Identity	160
	Shaping Persons' Identity as a Genesis Problem	160
	The Radical Molding of People: Genetic Engineering	168
	The Subtle Formation of Identity: Education	177
Pt. 3	Genethics and the Limits of Ethics
7	Empirical Constraints	193
	Mitigating the Counterintuitive Nature of Genethics	193
	Generational Overlap and the Desire to Have Children	197
	Environmental Conditions: Deep and Shallow Ecology	203
8	Self-Transcendence and Vicarious Immortality	210
	Pro-creation by Re-production	210
	The Great Generation Chain	218
	The Metaphysics of Genesis	222
	Notes	229
	Bibliography	265
	Index	273