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Rosalind Hursthouse FRSNZ (born 10 November 1943) is a British-born New Zealand moral philosopher noted for her work on virtue ethics. She is one of the leading exponents of contemporary virtue ethics, though she has also written extensively on philosophy of action , history of philosophy , moral psychology , and biomedical ethics .
A Book of Essays, 1969/1976; John Searle, Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language, 1969; ... Rosalind Hursthouse, On Virtue Ethics, 1999; Philippa Foot, ...
Rosalind Hursthouse, first woman to teach at an all men's college in Oxford; Evelyn Irons, first female war correspondent to be decorated with the French Croix de Guerre, first journalist to reach certain WWII war zones and first female Stanhope Medal recipient; Peggy Jackson, first female Archdeacon of Llandaff
Hursthouse may refer to: Charles Flinders Hursthouse (1817–1876), New Zealand settler, writer; Charles Wilson Hursthouse (1841–1911), New Zealand surveyor, public servant, politician, soldier; Richmond Hursthouse (1845–1902), New Zealand politician; Rosalind Hursthouse (born 1943), New Zealand moral philosopher
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Ilium. When a young woman's long-held dreams to escape the life she's always known finally, blissfully, come true, it seems at first like perhaps her days of longing are behind her.
According to Hursthouse, thinking about abortion in this way shows the unimportance of rights because one can act viciously in exercising a moral right. For example, she argues that the ending of a human life is always a serious matter and that abortion, when it is wrong, is wrong because it violates a respect for human life.