Persons, property or both?
Engelhardt on the moral status of young children
pp. 163-174
in: Reading Engelhardt, Berlin, Springer, 1997Abstract
In his many contributions to the bioethics literature over the past quarter century, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. has addressed the question of the moral status of children a number of times, sometimes in passing and occasionally at greater length.1 Engelhardt typically distinguishes the moral status of younger children, including infants, from that of older children and adults; in this paper I will focus on his discussions of younger children.
