Virtue Ethics and Human Enhancement
Titre:
Virtue Ethics and Human Enhancement
ISBN (Numéro international normalisé des livres):
9789400756724
Auteur personnel:
Edition:
1st ed. 2013.
PRODUCTION_INFO:
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Description physique:
XVI, 85 p. online resource.
Collections:
SpringerBriefs in Ethics,
Table des matières:
Introduction -- chapter 1 The problem -- chapter 2 The good life -- chapter 3 The biological obstacles -- chapter 4; Aristotle's virtues and how to acquire them -- chapter 5 Examples of useful capacities -- chapter 6 Critique of virtue ethics -- chapter 7 Three enhancement methods -- chapter 8 Conclusion.
Extrait:
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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Langue:
Anglais