Virtue Ethics and Human Enhancement
Author | : Barbro Fröding |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2012-10-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9400756712 |
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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.