August 17, 2012

Books

Is Love a Babe?

'Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate'

Why Have Children?The Ethical DebateChristine Overall The MIT Press, $27.95, 272 pp.

Francis Kane

St. Augustine famously said that he understood what time was until someone asked him: “What is time?” Then he was baffled. The question “Why have children?”—the title of a new book by Queen’s University Philosopher Christine Overall—works similarly. Most of us presume we know why until asked, and then we may find ourselves at a loss for a good answer. Well, this i (...)


 

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Francis Kane is professor emeritus at Salisbury University and co-director of its Institute for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement. He is the author of Neither Beasts nor Gods (Southern Methodist University Press).

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