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Virtue Ethics and Human Enhancement

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Barbro Fröding

    1. , Division of Philosophy, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

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  • Covers the novel topic of human cognitive enhancement
  • Discusses how some key ideas in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, when interpreted pragmatically, can be a productive way to approach some hot issues in bioethics
  • Contributes to the current debate both by giving a short introduction to virtue ethics and by adding some interesting and novel perspectives on bioethics
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The Problem

    • Barbro Fröding
    Pages 1-7

  3. The Good Life

    • Barbro Fröding
    Pages 9-22

  4. The Biological Obstacles

    • Barbro Fröding
    Pages 23-29

  5. Aristotle’s Virtues and How to Acquire Them

    • Barbro Fröding
    Pages 31-42

  6. Examples of Useful Capacities

    • Barbro Fröding
    Pages 43-60

  7. Critique of Virtue Ethics

    • Barbro Fröding
    Pages 61-66

  8. Three Enhancement Methods

    • Barbro Fröding
    Pages 67-82

  9. Conclusion

    • Barbro Fröding
    Pages 83-85
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About this book

This book shows how pressing issues in bioethics – e.g. the ownership of biological material and human cognitive enhancement – successfully can be discussed with in a virtue ethics framework. This is not intended as a complete or exegetic account of virtue ethics. Rather, the aim here is to discuss how some key ideas in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, when interpreted pragmatically, can be a productive way to approach some hot issues in bioethics. In spite of being a very promising theoretical perspective virtue ethics has so far been underdeveloped both in bioethics and neuroethics and most discussions have been conducted in consequentialist and/or deontological terms. ​

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“This brief book is an argument for the compatibility between virtue ethics and human enhancements. … The purpose of this book is to contribute to the conversation on enhancements by introducing virtue ethics to present a new perspective on human enhancement. … the book addresses a topic in an important field, and provides a foundation for future discussion … . it is most appropriate for readers not yet well versed in the Aristotelian virtue ethics tradition.” (Emily K. Trancik, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2013)

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  • , Division of Philosophy, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Barbro Fröding

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