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The Ethical Study On Technologies Enhancing Human Body

Posted on:2016-09-04Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X JiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1225330503477589Subject:Ethics
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With the development of modern life science and technology at the end of the 20th century, the problem of human body enhancement technology has more ethical issues, just because of the particularity and the complexity of a series of important and realistic problems, therefore they become the experts and scholars concerned about the frontier and hot problems. On the study of human body enhancement technique is not only to concern the field of science and technology, but also to pay attention to ethics field problems. Human is not only to be responsible for the moral responsibility, should also be responsible for the responsibility of the practice for the social impact and consequences caused by science and technology. In order to be able to have a moral life and action, human need to push forward the ethical research and exploration of enhancement technique practice.In this paper, I will from the three dimensions to research the human body enhancement which the frontier problems. Mainly including to provide the original rational support, and principled defense, finally value guidance. As far as possible in the metaphysical ethics level and physical practice level to be able to effectively defend and reasonable application. Caused by the human body enhancement technology of a series of debate and conflict, in essence is the conflicts between the "practical" of science and technology and the "should" of bioethics. Thus ethical research for the human body enhancement technique needs not only from the theoretical level of the metaphysical researches in it, and through rational reflection on the human to enhance problem, and review of life science and technology development and specification, so as to find a suitable tension between technology and ethics, and to solve conflict. And also need to strengthen the human body enhancement technique regulation and control of concrete practice application through the physical level, and formulate corresponding policies and strategies. Through the "soft" and "hard", actively to face and take effective measures to solve problems and resolve conflicts and contradictions, truly control the development direction of human enhancement technique, make it real benefit to human beings and society. Overall grasp human enhancement technique, systematically explore the special ethical problems brought by the enhancement technique, and carries on the theory of postmodern bioethics defense and the construction of reasonable ethical principles, so as to confirm human enhancement technique of ethics in the future. For the development of the human body enhancement technology, only to comprehensive considerations and evaluation the level of metaphysical theory and physical practice, in order to does not affect the human body enhancement technique play positive effect, also can avoid the threat of its negative influence; Neither affect technology truly benefit the human, also won’t appear society that impede the development and progress of the technology itself to the loss of more opportunities and possibilities of the phenomenon.
Keywords/Search Tags:the human body enhancement technique, liberal Cosmopolitan, overlapping moral consensus, body ethics, permission principle, tolerance principle
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