Virtue Ethics and Human Enhancement
Fröding, Barbro.
Virtue Ethics and Human Enhancement [electronic resource] / by Barbro Fröding. - XVI, 85 p. online resource. - SpringerBriefs in Ethics, 2211-8101 . - SpringerBriefs in Ethics, .
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.
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.
9789400756724
10.1007/978-94-007-5672-4 doi
Philosophy.
Ethics.
Medical ethics.
Philosophy.
Ethics.
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.
BJ1-1725
170
Virtue Ethics and Human Enhancement [electronic resource] / by Barbro Fröding. - XVI, 85 p. online resource. - SpringerBriefs in Ethics, 2211-8101 . - SpringerBriefs in Ethics, .
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.
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.
9789400756724
10.1007/978-94-007-5672-4 doi
Philosophy.
Ethics.
Medical ethics.
Philosophy.
Ethics.
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.
BJ1-1725
170