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Ethics : The Fundamental Questions of Our Lives /
Wolfgang Huber is Germany's most important theological ethicist, and this is a translation of his 2013 book published with CH Beck. Acknowledging our pluralistic world, Huber analyzes twenty ethical issues that emerge during the course of our lives: the future of the family, genetic handicaps a...
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Washington, DC :
Georgetown University Press,
[2015]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- What is ethics about?
- Life in common : does the family have a future?
- Human dignity : is there such a thing as a "trial pregnancy"?
- Handicap : do we want the perfect human being?
- Basic needs : isn't eating too a moral question?
- Poverty : how is it possible to dismantle injustice?
- Culture : is there such a thing as cultural basic foodstuffs?
- Conscience : is it possible to learn freedom of conscience and protect it?
- Responsibility : how does one become a world citizen?
- The information age : do the media control us?
- Work : do we live in order to work?
- Profit : what is the economy for?
- Science : are we permitted to do everything that we can in fact do?
- Medicine : is there a human right to health?
- Politics : is it possible to combine power and morality?
- Tolerance : how much differentness can we take?
- War and peace : how far does our responsibility go?
- Intergenerational justice : what do we leave behind for those who come after us?
- Old age : what does it mean to "honor your father and mother"?
- Dying : when has the time come to die?