Bioethics in complexity : foundations and evolutions / editors, Sergio De Risio, Franco F. Orsucci.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Risio, Sergio, 1945-

Orsucci, Franco.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioethics.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (101 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Imperial College Press ; River Edge, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Pub., c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This publication reviews the foundations of ethics in the history ofWestern thinking. It connects these philosophical matters withevolutionary theory and contemporary bioethics, biology and medicine,posing new questions for the current dialectics between categoricaland contextual ethics. Novel answers are presented from complexitytheory self-organization and nonlinear dynamics.

Contents:

Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1. On a Possible Foundation of Ethics Sergio De Risio, Chiara Cuomo; 2. In Darwin's Wake, Where Did I Go? Daniel C. Dennett; 3. Post-Kantian Problems of an Ethics of the Good Life and the Foundations of Discourse Ethics Karl-Otto Apel; 1. The Choice of My Topic Justified; 2. Ethics of the Good Life and other Problems of Ethics after Kant's Innovation of Universalistic Ethics; 3. The Transcendental-pragmatic Foundation of Dialogical or Discourse Ethics; 4. Discourse Ethics and the Concern of an Ethics of Self-Realization

4. Emotion, Metaphor and the Evolution of the Mind Arnold H. Modell5. Ethos in Action Franco F. Orsucci; 1. Evolution; 2. Local Rules; 3. Human Rights; 4. Language and Consciousness; 5. Time and Subject for Action; 6. Doublings; 7. Intention and Narration; 8. The Ethical Thing; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-86) and index.

ISBN:

9786611866570

9781281866578

1281866571

9781860945946

1860945945

9781860944000

1860944000

OCLC:

815741925