Virtue Ethics and Human Enhancement
This book shows how pressing issues in bioethics <U+0013> e.g. the ownership of biological material and human cognitive enhancement <U+0013> successfully can be discussed with in a virtue ethics framework. This is not intended as a complete or exegetic account of virtue ethics. Rather, t...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
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2013.
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| Series: | SpringerBriefs in Ethics,
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5672-4 |
| Summary: | This book shows how pressing issues in bioethics <U+0013> e.g. the ownership of biological material and human cognitive enhancement <U+0013> 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<U+0019>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 |
| ISSN: | 2211-8101 |