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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| 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 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- chapter 1 The problem
- chapter 2 The good life
- chapter 3 The biological obstacles
- chapter 4; Aristotle<U+0019>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.