Problems of Bioethics

This book criticizes the suggestive implication of newer bioethics that we need a new ethical paradigm in order to handle with the innovations of medicine and biotechnology. It holds that these innovations have a suggestive character at all which is not relevant however in order to justify a paradigm shift in ethics. Especially the suggestions of reproduction, genetics, mercy killing and neuroscience reveal a misunderstanding about ethics. Moreover they show inevitably theological implications they actually like to avoid especially in secular ethics.

List of contents

Contents: The Claim of Bioethics - The Moral State of the Embryo - The Power of Feelings in Bioethics - Human Reproductive Cloning and Germ Line Therapy - Could Computers Feel Like Humans? (Qualia) - Patients with Serious Brain Damage - Do Humans Have a Free Will? - The Problem of Mercy Killing - Eternal Dignity - The Metaphysical Concept of Presumed Will.

About the author

Lukas Ohly, born in 1969; studying evangelical theology and philosophy; 1998 MA phil.; 2000 dissertation thesis in ev. theology about human dignity and euthanasia; 2007 second thesis about genetic enhancement and anthropology; lecturer of Frankfurt university since 2007; author of a book about a theory of perceiving God (2011), many articles about ethics and philosophy of religion.

Product details

• Authors: Lukas Ohly
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9783631637777
• ISBN: 978-3-631-63777-7
• No. of pages: 154
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 13 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 320 g
• Series: Darmstädter Beiträge zu Gegenwartsfragen; Theologisch-Philosophische Beiträge zu Gegenwartsfragen; Theologisch-Philosophische Beiträge zu Gegenwartsfragen; Darmstädter Beiträge zu Gegenwartsfragen
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous