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反對完美: 科技與人性的正義之戰

作者 邁可.桑德爾
出版社 HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
商品描述 The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering:Geneticbreakthroughspresentuswithapredicament:isitwrongtore-engineerournature?Sandelexplo

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內容簡介 Genetic breakthroughs present us with a predicament: is it wrong to re-engineer our nature? Sandel explores the moral quandaries surrounding the quest to perfect ourselves and our children. He concludes that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons beyond safety and fairness; it also suggests a failure to appreciate human achievements. �Sandel explores a paramount question of our era: how to extend the power and promise of biomedical science to overcome debility without compromising our humanity. His arguments are acute and penetrating, melding sound logic with compassion.��Jerome Groopman, author of How Doctors ThinkBreakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature�to enhance our genetic traits and those of our children. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, it is not easy to articulate why. What is wrong with re-engineering our nature?The Case against Perfection explores these and other moral quandaries connected with the quest to perfect ourselves and our children. Michael Sandel argues that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyond safety and fairness. The drive to enhance human nature through genetic technologies is objectionable because it represents a bid for mastery and dominion that fails to appreciate the gifted character of human powers and achievements. Carrying us beyond familiar terms of political discourse, this book contends that the genetic revolution will change the way philosophers discuss ethics and will force spiritual questions back onto the political agenda.In order to grapple with the ethics of enhancement, we need to confront questions largely lost from view in the modern world. Since these questions verge on theology, modern philosophers and political theorists tend to shrink from them. But our new powers of biotechnology make these questions unavoidable. Addressing them is the task of this book, by one of America�s preeminent moral and political thinkers.

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書名 / The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
作者 / 邁可.桑德爾
簡介 / The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering:Geneticbreakthroughspresentuswithapredicament:isitwrongtore-engineerournature?Sandelexplo
出版社 / HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
ISBN13 / 9780674036383
ISBN10 / 0674036387
EAN / 9780674036383
誠品26碼 / 2680750191005
頁數 / 176
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裝訂 / P:平裝
語言 / 3:英文
尺寸 / 11.2X1.3X18CM
級別 / N:無

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