The future of human nature
By: Jürgen Habermas.
Contributors: Habermas, Jürgen.
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Ethics; Eugenics -- Moral and ethical aspects
Work titles: Zukunft der menschlichen Natur.
Description: "Recent developments in biotechnology and genetic research are raising complex ethical questions concerning the legitimate scope and limits of genetic intervention. As we begin to contemplate the possibility of intervening in the human genome to prevent diseases, we cannot help but feel that the human species might soon be able to take its biological evolution in its own hands. 'Playing God' is the metaphor commonly used for this self-transformation of the species, which, it seems, might soon be within our grasp."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-127).
Table of contents: title: Are there postmetaphysical answers to the question : what is the "good life"?; title: The debate on the ethical self-understanding of the species; title: Moralizing human nature?; title: Human dignity versus the dignity of human life; title: The embedding of morality in an ethics of the species; title: The grown and the made; title: Natality, the capacity of being oneself, and the ban on instrumentalization; title: The moral limits of eugenics; title: Setting the pace for a self-instrumentalization of the species?; title: Faith and knowledge.