Virtue Ethics and Human Enhancement
This book shows how pressing issues in bioethics – e.g. the ownership of biological material and human cognitive enhancement – successfully can be discussed with in a virtue ethics framework. This is not intended as a complete or exegetic account of virtue ethics. Rather, the aim here is to discuss...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2013, 2013
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2013 |
Series: | SpringerBriefs in Ethics
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | This book shows how pressing issues in bioethics – e.g. the ownership of biological material and human cognitive enhancement – successfully can be discussed with in a virtue ethics framework. This is not intended as a complete or exegetic account of virtue ethics. Rather, the aim here is to discuss how some key ideas in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, when interpreted pragmatically, can be a productive way to approach some hot issues in bioethics. In spite of being a very promising theoretical perspective virtue ethics has so far been underdeveloped both in bioethics and neuroethics and most discussions have been conducted in consequentialist and/or deontological terms |
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Physical Description: | XVI, 85 p online resource |
ISBN: | 9789400756724 |