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Ethical Perspectives

CONTENTS:
Introduction / Bart Pattyn
Prometheus unbound: Transhumanist arguments from (human) nature / Michael Hauskeller
J. Rawls's idea of an 'overlapping consensus' and the complexity of 'comprehensive doctrines' / Banu Kilan
The moral framework of Peter Singer's Animal Liberation: an alternative to utilitarianism / Renzo Llorente
Intention and permissibility / Amir Saemi
Discourses on happiness: A reading of Descartes and Nietzsche / Isabelle Wienand

Introduction / Bart Pattyn
Disagreement, perspectivism, consequentialism / Arnold Burms
Justification in the liberal era: The failing neutralisation of public contempt / Bart Pattyn
European higher education under the spell of university rankings / Philippe Van Parijs
What kind of university rankings do we want? / Patrick Loobuyck
Firefighting ethics: Principlism for burning issues / Per Sandin

Introduction / Bart Pattyn
Religion in the Public Arena: Recognition, Vulnerability and Tragedy / Marianne Moyaert
The Attitude of Flemish Palliative Care Physicians to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: An Empirical Study / Bert Broeckaert, Joris Gielen, Trudie Van Iersel and Stef Van den Branden
Truth, Meaning and the Common World: The Significance and Meaning of Common Sense in Hannah Arendt's Thought - Part One / Remi Peeters
The Historical Roots of Personalism: From Renouvier's Le Personnalisme (1903), Mounier's Manifeste au service du personnalisme (1936) and Maritain's Humanisme intégral (1936) to Janssens's Personne et Société (1939) / Johan De Tavernier

Introduction: Uncritical Reason / Bart Pattyn
Truth, Meaning and the Common World: The Significance and Meaning of Common Sense in Hannah Arendt's Thought - Part Two / Remi Peeters
The Harm of Premature Death: Immortality - The Transhumanist Challenge / James Watson
Care and Justice / Robert White
Parental Refusal to Terminate Pregnancy in face of a Strongly Negative Prognosis of Neonatal Viability / Caroline Guibet-Lafaye

Statement of Responsibility European Centre of Ethics
Author(s) European Centre of Ethics - Organizational Body
Edition Vol. 16 No. 1 - Vol. 16 No. 4
Call Number ETH 174 22
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Subject(s) Journal
Classification ETH
Series Title
GMD Journal
Language English
Publisher
Publishing Year 2009
Publishing Place Belgium
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