Virtue Ethics and Human Enhancement [electronic resource] / by Barbro Fröding
- Author
- Fröding, Barbro
- Published
- Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
- Physical Description
- XVI, 85 pages : digital
- Additional Creators
- SpringerLink (Online service)
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- Series
- Contents
- 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.
- 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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- ISBN
- 9789400756724
- Note
- AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
- Part Of
- Springer eBooks
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