Shaping Our Selves

Name: Shaping Our Selves
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When bioethicists debate the ethics of using technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our...

Informace o knize

Autor

Erik Parens

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2014

Stránek

216

EAN

9780190211745

ISBN

0190211741

Enbook ID

04511801

Vydavatel

Oxford University Press Inc

Hmotnost

352

Rozměry

213 x 147 x 20

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When bioethicists debate the ethics of using technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves, they are debating what it means for human beings to flourish. They are debating what makes animals like us truly happy, and whether the technologies at issue will bring us closer to or farther from such happiness. The positions that participants adopt in debates regarding such ancient and fundamental questions are often polarized, and cannot help but be deeply personal. It is no wonder that these debates are sometimes acrimonious. How can critics of and enthusiasts about technological self-transformation move forward in the midst of polarizing arguments? Based on his experience as a scholar at The Hastings Center, the oldest free-standing bioethics research institute in the world, Erik Parens proposes a habit of thinking, which he calls

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