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An Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics (Paperback)

by Mary Warnock (Author)
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Overlook Press; 1 edition (27 Jun 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1585678236
  • ISBN-13: 978-1585678235
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 12.4 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 36,058 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Illuminating, moving and fun, 11 May 2003
This review is from: An Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics (Paperback)
I find the series title a bit off-putting. It suggests the opposite to what it says. Don't be misled. There is nothing patronising or naff about this book. It is the intellectual autobiography (more or less) of a very intelligent person who, amongst other things, took the leading role in setting up and running the Human Embriology Authority. Mary Warnock takes us through her own growing up in school, university and war, and thus gives the personal context in which her views developed. She covers not only in vitro fertilisation, but experiments on embryos, abortion, euthanasia, the moral upbringing of children, human rights and post-modernism. She may be less than 100% in favour of the latter. Post-modernists sometimes get close to arguing that any views on anything are of equal worth - but here is a person who believes that the quality of argument really matters: we should not allow ourselves to be conned by superficial assertions.

I found everything the author had to say interesting and stimulating. Towards the end of the book, though, I found her views on children beginning to make me think of her as Nanny Warnock, and her views on whether we should extend "rights" to animals perhaps less like argument and more like assertion of a characteristically determined kind. But what's the point in reading only what you agree with?

It is exquisitely written in economical, elegant English prose. I found the opening chapter, the most narrative, especially compelling. Worth reading from this point of view alone.

I'm surprised there aren't a lot of reviews for this pleasurable and affecting work already.

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