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.
| Author: Barbro Fröding |
| Publisher: Springer |
| Publication Date: Oct 24, 2012 |
| Number of Pages: 85 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 9400756712 |
| ISBN-13: 9789400756717 |
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