An ambiguity in Habermas’s argument against liberal eugenics

In his book The future of human nature, Jürgen Habermas argues against a scenario of liberal eugenics, in which parents are free to prenatally manipulate their children’s genetic constitution via germline interventions. In this paper, I draw attention to the fact that his species-ethical line of arg...

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Main Author: Schäfer, Leon-Philip (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2019]
In: Bioethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 33, Issue: 9, Pages: 1059-1064
IxTheo Classification:NBE Anthropology
NCH Medical ethics
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B species-ethics
B Habermas
B Autonomy
B Equality
B liberal eugenics
B self-understanding
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