Jonathan Glover

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Jonathan Glover is a British philosopher who is known for his studies on bioethics. He was born in 1941 and he was educated in Tonbridge School, later going on to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was a fellow and tutor in philosophy at New College, Oxford. He currently teaches ethics at King's College in the University of London.

In 1977 he argued that to call a foetus a human person was to stretch the term beyond its natural boundaries.

In the The End of Faith, Sam Harris quotes Glover as saying: "Our entanglements with people close to us erode simple self-interest. Husbands, wives, lovers, parents, children and friends all blur the boundaries of selfish concern. Francis Bacon rightly said that people with children have given hostages to fortune. Inescapably, other forms of friendship and love hold us hostage too...Narrow self-interest is destabilized."

[edit] Writings

Choosing Children: The Ethical Dilemmas of Genetic Intervention, (2006)
Humanity: A Moral History of The 20th Century. (1999)
Women and Development: a study of capacities, edited with Martha Nussbaum (1995)
Utilitarianism and Its Critics (editor) (1990)
The Glover Report: The Ethics of New Reproductive Technologies, a report for the European Commission (1989)
I: The Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity (1988)
What Sort of People Should There Be? (1984)
Philosophy of Mind, (editor) (1979)
Causing Death and Saving Lives (1977)
Responsibility (1970)