Virtue Ethics and Human Enhancement

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Reference, Ethics, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
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Author: Barbro Fröding ISBN: 9789400756724
Publisher: Springer Netherlands Publication: October 24, 2012
Imprint: Springer Language: English
Author: Barbro Fröding
ISBN: 9789400756724
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication: October 24, 2012
Imprint: Springer
Language: English

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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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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