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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450184503321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Imperial College Press

River Edge, NJ, : Distributed by World Scientific Pub., c2004

ISBN

1-281-86657-1

9786611866570

1-86094-594-5

1-86094-400-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (101 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

De RisioSergio <1945->

OrsucciFranco

Disciplina

174/.957

Soggetti

Bioethics

Medical ethics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.