title: Comparison of bioethical views in the work of Peter Singer and in ethics of social consequences
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metadata.value: Ambrozy, Marian M.
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metadata.value: 2023-02-06T16:20:44Z
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metadata.value: 2023-02-06T16:20:44Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.value: Ambrozy M. M. Comparison of bioethical views in the work of Peter Singer and in ethics of social consequences. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2022, vol. 38, issue 4, pp. 452–464. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2022.401
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2022.401
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38963
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metadata.value: The present paper compares the ethics of Peter Singer and the ethics of social consequences in
  bioethics. As part of the discussion on the ethics of social consequences, attention is mainly
  focused on the theory of its founder, Vasil Gluchman, and the works of his selected students.
  First, the selected bioethical views of Peter Singer are analyzed, and his ethics of preference
  utilitarianism are presented through the prism of his understanding of the person. In this
  sense, Singer’s view on the issues of abortion and infanticide is presented. Furthermore, the
  study deals with Singer’s views on the killing of animals and people regarding his criticism of
  speciesism and his prioritization of the preference criterion. Attention is also paid to Singer’s
  view on euthanasia. The study also presents the bioethical views of representatives of the ethics
  of social consequences, namely non-utilitarian consequentialism. It focuses on the question
  of to what extent genetics, according to Gluchman, determines morality and whether the
  protection of life is an absolute value for the ethics of social consequences. The paper also analyzes
  the abortion issue from the point of view of the ethics of social consequences. Selected
  bioethical attitudes of the ethics of social consequences proponents are also presented to compare
  the two concepts and determine the ontological fundaments on which Singer relies. Furthermore,
  the paper discusses Singer’s concept of the person, claiming that the ethics of social
  consequences argues for human dignity and positive social consequences for humans. Singer
  does not work with the concept of human dignity. In the paper, preference utilitarianism is
  not considered a hybrid ethical theory, unlike the ethics of social consequences. Preference
  utilitarianism and ethics of social consequences accept abortion and euthanasia in particular
  cases. The ethics of social consequences accepts them only if life contradicts human dignity,
  and preferential utilitarianism if it aligns with the person’s preferences or if it is not a person. Gluchman admits the solutions above as altruistic help to the suffering person. However, the
  ethics of social consequences does not consider the animal a person, nor does it condone infanticide,
  as does preference utilitarianism.
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metadata.value: This paper is a part of the research project IG-KSV-ET-01-2021/12 “Ethics in the context of its
  implementation into society”.
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 38; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: preference
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: utilitarianism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethics of social consequences
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: bioethics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: person
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: humanity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: protection of life
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Comparison of bioethical views in the work of Peter Singer and in ethics of social consequences
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metadata.value: Article
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