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1 online resource (137 pages) |
| Contents |
Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Publisher's Note; Foreword; Are There Postmetaphysical Answers to the Question: What is the "Good Life"?; The Debate on the Ethical Self-Understanding of the Species; I Moralizing human nature?; II Human dignity versus the dignity of human life; III The embedding of morality in an ethics of the species; IV The grown and the made; V Natality, the capacity of being oneself, and the ban on instrumentalization; VI The moral limits of eugenics; VII Setting the pace for a self-instrumentalizationof the species?; Postscript (January 2002); Faith and Knowledge |
| Summary |
Recent developments in biotechnology and genetic research are raising complex ethical questions concerning the legitimate scope and limits of genetic intervention. As we begin to contemplate the possibility of intervening in the human genome to prevent diseases, we cannot help but feel that the human species might soon be able to take its biological evolution in its own hands. 'Playing God' is the metaphor commonly used for this self-transformation of the species, which, it seems, might soon be within our grasp. In this important new book, Jurgen Habermas - the most influential philosopher and |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Notes |
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Translated into English |
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Print version record |
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Ethics.
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Eugenics -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Ethics
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ethics (philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Ethics.
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Eugenics -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Bioethik
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Ethiek.
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Menselijke natuur.
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Eugenetica.
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Genetische manipulatie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780745692715 |
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0745692710 |
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1322214905 |
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9781322214900 |
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