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Virtue Ethics and Human Enhancement [electronic resource] / by Barbro Fröding.

By: Fröding, Barbro [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: SpringerBriefs in Ethics: Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013Description: XVI, 85 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789400756724.Subject(s): Philosophy (General) | Ethics | Medical ethics | Philosophy | Ethics | Theory of Medicine/BioethicsDDC classification: 170 Online resources: Click here to access online
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.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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 how some key ideas in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, when interpreted pragmatically, can be a productive way to approach some hot issues in bioethics. In spite of being a very promising theoretical perspective virtue ethics has so far been underdeveloped both in bioethics and neuroethics and most discussions have been conducted in consequentialist and/or deontological terms.
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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.

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 how some key ideas in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, when interpreted pragmatically, can be a productive way to approach some hot issues in bioethics. In spite of being a very promising theoretical perspective virtue ethics has so far been underdeveloped both in bioethics and neuroethics and most discussions have been conducted in consequentialist and/or deontological terms.

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