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Biotechnology, human nature, and Christian ethics /
In public debates over biotechnology, theologians, philosophers, and political theorists have proposed that biotechnology could have significant implications for human nature. They argue that ethical evaluations of biotechnologies that might affect human nature must take these implications into acco...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | New studies in Christian ethics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; General Editorâ#x80;#x99;s Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Biotechnology, Normative Status, Human Nature; How Biotechnology Implicates Human Nature; Human Biological Nature and Christian Ethics; Normative Status of Human Nature: Four Views; Normative Status of Human Nature: Its Meaning; Problems with Normative Discourses on Human Nature; What Is at Stake for Christian Ethics?; Chapter 2 Human Nature as Given; Four Initial Objections to NS1; Creation, Eschatology, and Biotechnology.
- Creation and EschatologyCreated Order and Biotechnology; Begetting and Making Children; Autonomy, Equality, and Genetic Choice; The Context of Habermasâ#x80;#x99;s Position; The Crux of Habermasâ#x80;#x99;s Position; Biotechnology and Autonomy; Biotechnology and Equality; Parenthood, Unconditional Love, and Genetic Choice; Genetic Choice and Unconditional Parental Love; God, Nature, and the Restraint of Human Mastery; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Human Nature as Ground of Human Goods and Rights; Goods, Rights, and Human Nature; Human Nature and the Human Good; Human Nature and Human Rights.
- Biotechnology and Natural Goods and RightsDoes Enhancement Differ from What Nature Does?; Biotechnology and the Stability of Human Nature; Is Biotechnology a Threat to Human Goods and Rights?; What Matters: Our Good or Our Nature?; Normative Status, Goods and Rights, Human Nature; The First Response; The Second Response; The Third Response; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Human Nature as Susceptible to Intervention; Indeterminacy, Open-Endedness, and Malleability; Objections and Replies; Human Nature in an Unfinished Creation; The Alteration of Human Nature and the Imago Dei; Conclusion.
- Chapter 5 Human Nature as Condition for Imaging GodHuman Biological Nature and the Image of God; Tanner on Human Nature and the Image of God; Barth on Human Nature and the Image of God; Creaturely Nature and the Covenant; Human Nature and the Image of God; The Biological Life Span as Sign of Our Determination for Life with God; Implications of Barthâ#x80;#x99;s Position for Biotechnology; Conclusion; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.