Genethics
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Genethics

Moral Issues in the Creation of People

  1. 294 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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eBook - PDF

Genethics

Moral Issues in the Creation of People

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Unprecedented advances in medicine, genetic engineering, and demographic forecasting raise new questions that strain the categories and assumptions of traditional ethical theories. Heyd's approach resolves many paradoxes in intergenerational justice, while offering a major test case for the profound problems of the limits of ethics and the nature of value.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780520313484
Edition
1
Topic
Filosofia
Subtopic
Filosofia etica e morale

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction: Playing God
  4. PART ONE. Paradoxes
  5. CHAPTER 1. Wrongful Life: A Pure Genesis Problem
  6. CHAPTER 2. The Failure of Traditional Ethical Theories
  7. CHAPTER 3. The Meta-ethical Deadlock
  8. PART TWO. Generocentrism
  9. CHAPTER 4. Existence
  10. CHAPTER 5. Numbers
  11. CHAPTER 6. Identity
  12. PART THREE. Genethics and the Limits of Ethics
  13. CHAPTER 7. Empirical Constraints
  14. CHAPTER 8. Self-Transcendence and Vicarious Immortality
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index