Participants in biotechnology debates often argue that human nature has normative status, so that ethical evaluations of biotechnologies that affect human nature must consider their implications for human nature. Focusing on Christian ethics in conversation with secular ethics, this book is the first thorough analysis of this controversial issue.
Participants in biotechnology debates often argue that human nature has normative status, so that ethical evaluations of biotechnologies that affect human nature must consider their implications for human nature. Focusing on Christian ethics in conversation with secular ethics, this book is the first thorough analysis of this controversial issue.
Gerald McKenny is Walter Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is the author of To Relieve the Human Condition: Bioethics, Technology, and the Body (1997) and The Analogy of Grace: Karl Barth's Moral Theology (2013). His work in theological ethics and biomedical ethics is concerned with Christian ethics in a milieu that is shaped by modern culture, politics, and technology.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Biotechnology and the normative status of human nature 2. Human nature as given 3. Human nature as ground of human goods and rights 4. Human nature as indeterminate, open-ended, and malleable 5. Human nature as condition for imaging God Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index.
1. Biotechnology and the normative status of human nature 2. Human nature as given 3. Human nature as ground of human goods and rights 4. Human nature as indeterminate, open-ended, and malleable 5. Human nature as condition for imaging God Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index.
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