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Considers the concept of a "person" as amoral agent and examines theories of Applied Normative Ethics, including Teleology and Deontology, using Kant, as well as traditional Virtue Theory, as expressed by Aristotle, against the background of in vitro fertilization and other technological marvels and "fuzzy logic." Children's author Sook Nyul Choi and poets Lucille Clifton, Josephine Jacobsen, W.S. Merwin, and Hilary Tham.