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100 1 _aFröding, Barbro.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aVirtue Ethics and Human Enhancement
_h[electronic resource] /
_cby Barbro Fröding.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2013.
300 _aXVI, 85 p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aSpringerBriefs in Ethics,
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505 0 _aIntroduction -- 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.
520 _aThis 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.
650 0 _aPhilosophy (General).
650 0 _aEthics.
650 0 _aMedical ethics.
650 1 4 _aPhilosophy.
650 2 4 _aEthics.
650 2 4 _aTheory of Medicine/Bioethics.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
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830 0 _aSpringerBriefs in Ethics,
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