Problems of Bioethics.
This book criticizes the suggestive implication of newer bioethics that we need a new ethical paradigm in order to handle the innovations of medicine and biotechnology. It proves that these innovations have a suggestive character which is not relevant, however, in order to justify a paradigm shift i...
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Format: | Electronic Book |
Language: | English |
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Frankfurt a.M.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag d. Wissenschaften
2012
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In: | Year: 2012 |
Series/Journal: | Theologisch-Philosophische Beitraege zu Gegenwartsfragen
v.12 |
Further subjects: | B
Bioethics
B Biology ; Social aspects B Electronic books B Biology -- Social aspects |
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Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9783631637777 |
Summary: | This book criticizes the suggestive implication of newer bioethics that we need a new ethical paradigm in order to handle the innovations of medicine and biotechnology. It proves that these innovations have a suggestive character which is not relevant, however, in order to justify a paradigm shift in ethics. Cover -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 The claim of bioethics -- 1.1 Three suggestions -- 1.2 Appendix: The principles of ethics -- 2 The moral state of the embryo -- 2.1 SCIP-Arguments -- 2.1.1 The Species-argument -- 2.1.2 The Continuum-argument -- 2.1.3 The Identity-argument -- 2.1.4 The Potentiality-Argument -- 2.2 An argument against the human state of the embryo -- 3 The power of feelings in bioethics -- 3.1 Feeling, Wholeness and Nature -- 3.2 How does biotechnology influence our feelings -- 3.3 Why do scientists have no scruples? -- 4 Human reproductive cloning and germ line therapy -- 4.1 Reproductive Cloning -- 4.2 Germ line therapy -- 4.3 An anthropological framework to evaluate cloning and germ line therapy -- 4.4 How genetics disturbs human freedom -- 4.5 Result -- 5 Brain and Mind -- 6 Could computers feel like humans? (Qualia) -- 6.1 First Case -- 6.2 Second Case -- 6.3 Criticism -- 7 Patients with serious brain damage -- 8 Do Humans have a free will? -- 8.1 What is free will? -- 8.2 The Libet-Experiment -- 8.3 Freedom means self-determination -- 8.4 Theological appendix -- 9 The problem of mercy killing -- 10 Eternal Dignity -- 10.1 A metaphysical presupposition of Dignity46 -- 10.2 A second metaphysical presupposition of dignity -- 10.3 Non-metaphysical approach to end of life-decisions -- 10.4 How metaphysical Dignity works in Ethics -- 11 Ethical and theological kinds of guilt -- 12 The Metaphysical Concept of Presumed Will -- 13 At the End of the Lectures. |
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ISBN: | 3653025184 |