{"id":1262,"date":"2013-01-15T17:19:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T17:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2020-07-27T21:53:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T20:53:16","slug":"the-case-for-the-permissibility-of-male-infant-circumcision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/the-case-for-the-permissibility-of-male-infant-circumcision\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case for the Permissibility of Male Infant Circumcision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joseph Mazor\/\u00a0<strong>Kristina Musholt<\/strong><\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_publiclecturesandevents\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/publiclecturesandevents\/20130115_1830_theCaseForThePermissibility.mp3\"><strong>Listen to the podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday 15 January 2013, 6.30 \u2013 8pm<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.lse.ac.uk\/philosophy\/WhosWho\/academicstaff.aspx\"><strong>Joseph Mazor<\/strong><\/a>, LSE Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method<\/p>\n<p>Chair:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/research\/forumForEuropeanPhilosophy\/whosWho\/Deputy-Director.aspx\"><strong>Kristina Musholt<\/strong><\/a>, LSE Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method and Deputy Director of the Forum for European Philosophy<\/p>\n<p>Circumcision has recently come under scrutiny, with some arguing that the circumcision of young children for religious reasons should not be permitted. In this lecture,\u00a0<strong>Joe Mazor<\/strong>\u00a0made five arguments defending the permissibility of circumcision: first he challenged\u00a0absolutist\u00a0claims regarding bodily integrity; second he questioned the harm to the autonomy interest of the child; third he questioned the harm from the reduction in sexual pleasure; fourth he highlighted the benefit of saving the religious child the pain of adult circumcision; and fifth he raised a worry about the potential alienation of the child from his religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Mazor\/\u00a0Kristina Musholt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":11759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[70,19],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-bioethics","tag-ethics"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/06\/interview-wide2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-km","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12514,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/12514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}