Bioethics In Complexity: Foundations And Evolutions

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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.

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Full title :Bioethics In Complexity : Foundations And Evolutions.

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Publication Date:2004.

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Publisher(s):World scientific Publishing Company
Place of Publication:Singapore
Language:eng
Publication Date:2004.

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Description:1 online resource (101 pages)

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ISBN:1860943993, 9781860943997
oclc:ocn956639673
LC Classification:QH332 .B56 2004eb
Dewey Decimal:174/.957

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.