Virtue Ethics and Human Enhancement

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fröding, Barbro (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Ethics,
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.