Biotechnology, Human Nature, and Christian Ethics
Part of New Studies in Christian Ethics
- Author: Gerald McKenny, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
- Date Published: January 2018
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108422802
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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 account. In this book, Gerald McKenny examines these important yet controversial arguments, which have in turn been criticized by many moral philosophers and professional bioethicists. He argues that Christian ethics is, in principle, committed to some version of the claim that human nature has normative status in relation to biotechnology. Showing how both criticisms and defences of this claim have often been facile, he identifies, develops, and critically evaluates three versions of the claim, and contributes a fourth, distinctively Christian version to the debate. Focusing on Christian ethics in conversation with secular ethics, McKenny's book is the first thorough analysis of a controversial contemporary issue.
Read more- Mathematical treatments are avoided, making this accessible to a wider range of readers
- Proposes a new view of social science and is descriptive, critical, and constructive, allowing readers to find formulations of the major positions, critical analyses of them, and an exposition of an entirely new position
- Focuses on Christian ethics in conversation with Jewish and secular ethics, appealing to various disciplines
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'Well written and with sound scholarly apparatus, this text will serve ethics and philosophy professionals as well as upper-level students.' M. LaBar, Choice
See more reviews'Eschewing both cheap moralizing and cynical resignation, McKenny offers his readers a variety of descriptive frameworks which are fully attuned to the ambiguities of … a bioethical quandary. The vitality of Christian moral discourses is shown precisely in how the language of witness and attestation are able to uphold such ambiguity, and to do so in our rapidly changing world.' Marginalia Review of Books
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- Date Published: January 2018
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108422802
- length: 235 pages
- dimensions: 237 x 160 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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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