Problems of Bioethics

ISBN-13: 9783631637777 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 152 str.

Lukas Ohly

Opis

This book criticizes the suggestive implication of newer bioethics that we need a new ethical paradigm in order to handle with the innovations of medicine and biotechnology. It holds that these innovations have a suggestive character at all which is not relevant however in order to justify a paradigm shift in ethics. Especially the suggestions of reproduction, genetics, mercy killing and neuroscience reveal a misunderstanding about ethics. Moreover they show inevitably theological implications they actually like to avoid especially in secular ethics.

Spis treści

Contents: The Claim of Bioethics - The Moral State of the Embryo - The Power of Feelings in Bioethics - Human Reproductive Cloning and Germ Line Therapy - Could Computers Feel Like Humans? (Qualia) - Patients with Serious Brain Damage - Do Humans Have a Free Will? - The Problem of Mercy Killing - Eternal Dignity - The Metaphysical Concept of Presumed Will.

O autorze

Lukas Ohly, born in 1969; studying evangelical theology and philosophy; 1998 MA phil.; 2000 dissertation thesis in ev. theology about human dignity and euthanasia; 2007 second thesis about genetic enhancement and anthropology; lecturer of Frankfurt university since 2007; author of a book about a theory of perceiving God (2011), many articles about ethics and philosophy of religion.