Biotechnology, Human Nature, and Christian Ethics

McKenny, Gerald

doi:10.1017/9781108385916

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“…For a much more thorough treatment of these matters, seeMcKenny (2011;2018). My discussion here is deeply indebted to McKenny's.…”

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Technological Innovation and Natural Law

Woodward

2020

Philos. Reformata

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I discuss three tiers of technological innovation: mild innovation, or the acceleration by technology of a human activity aimed at a good; moderate innovation, or the obviation by technology of an activity aimed at a good; and radical innovation, or the altering by technology of the human condition so as to change what counts as a good. I argue that it is impossible to morally assess proposed innovations within any of these three tiers unless we rehabilitate a natural-law ethical framework. And I offer some moral starting points within such a framework, in connection with innovations of each of the three types.

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“…For a much more thorough treatment of these matters, seeMcKenny (2011;2018). My discussion here is deeply indebted to McKenny's.…”

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