TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fröding,Barbro
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Virtue Ethics and Human Enhancement
T2  - SpringerBriefs in Ethics,
SN  - 9789400756724
AV  - BJ1-1725 
U1  - 170 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5672-4
ER  -