Beckwith F J
J M Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, Baylor University; Waco, Texas, USA.
J Med Ethics. 2005 Jan;31(1):56-60. doi: 10.1136/jme.2004.006650.
Ken Himma argues that a human being becomes a moral person at the commencement of brain activity. In response to Himma, the author offers (1) brief comments on Himma's project, (2) an alternative account of the human person that maintains that a human being is a human person by nature as long as it exists, and (3) a counterexample to Himma's position that shows it cannot account for the wrongness of the purposeful creation of anencephalic-like children. The author concludes with replies to two challenges to his position.
肯·希玛认为，人类在大脑活动开始时成为道德人。针对希玛的观点，作者提出了三点看法：（1）对希玛的观点进行简要评论；（2）提出一种关于人的不同观点，即只要人类存在，其本质上就是人；（3）给出一个反例来反驳希玛的立场，表明该立场无法解释故意创造无脑儿般的孩子这种行为的错误性。作者最后回应了对其立场的两个挑战。
