Conceptualising the Self in the Genetic Era

作者: Heather Widdows

DOI: 10.1007/S10728-006-0033-5

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摘要: This paper addresses the impact of genetic advances and understandings on our concept self individual. In particular it focuses conceptions ‘autonomous individual’ in post-Enlightenment tradition bioethics. It considers ascendancy autonomous individual as model describes erosion substantial concepts reduction to “the will”—with accompanying values freedom, choice autonomy. conception an isolated, individual, characterised by acts ‘will’ is then critiqued drawing both theoretical sources, particularly work Iris Murdoch, practical namely difficulties raised genetics.

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