Nanotechnology promises progress in a number of fields such as health care or environmental monitoring. For the informed public it will be of great importance to gain an unbiased overview over the chances and potential risks of nanobiotechnology. This volume is mainly concerned with the possible ethical and social implications of nanobiotechnology.
Johann Ach is a researcher at the Institute of Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine at the University of Mnster (Germany). Ludwig Siep is professor at the Philosophical Institute at the University of Mnster (Germany).
Nanotechnology promises progress in a number of fields such as health care or environmental monitoring. For the informed public it will be of great...
Hegels Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts von 1820 sind seit ihrem Erscheinen Gegenstand heftiger Kontroversen. Gehort das Werk der Restauration oder dem Fruhkonstitutionalismus an? Muss man Hegels liberale Tendenzen zwischen den Zeilen eines fur die Zensur getarnten Werkes herauslesen? Oder sind seine Erben die linken und rechten Totalitarismen des vergangenen Jahrhunderts? Die systematischen Beitrage zu Person und Handlung, Freiheit und Kausalitat, Recht und Ethik, zum Strafrecht und zum Volkerrecht oder zum Verhaltnis von Markt, Sozialstaat und politischer Kultur...
Hegels Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts von 1820 sind seit ihrem Erscheinen Gegenstand heftiger Kontroversen. Gehort das Werk der Re...
Recent aspirations towards the technical perfection of humanity and nature call for a new type of ethics. The overcoming of all human weakness is often viewed as a personal right as well as a common good. But fully overcoming human weakness would undermine the basis for mutual support and recognition. The achievement of complete technical independence from natural forces would end the embeddedness of humanity within natural history. This book defends the necessity of ethical assessment against the automatism of relying on technical developments or market processes. To identify both the values...
Recent aspirations towards the technical perfection of humanity and nature call for a new type of ethics. The overcoming of all human weakness is ofte...
