Bioethics In Complexity: Foundations And Evolutions
Will be published approx. on 8. June 2004
Book
Hardback
100 pages
978-1-86094-399-7 (ISBN)
Description
This publication reviews the foundations of ethics in the history of Western thinking. It connects these philosophical matters with evolutionary theory and contemporary bioethics, biology and medicine, posing new questions for the current dialectics between categorical and contextual ethics. Novel answers are presented from complexity theory - self-organization and nonlinear dynamics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86094-399-7 (9781860943997)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
On a Possible Foundation of Ethics (S De Risio & C Cuomo); In Darwin's Wake, Where Did I Go? (D C Dennett); Post-Kantian Problems of an Ethics of the Good Life, K-O Apel; Emotion, Metaphor and the Evolution of the Mind (A H Modell); Ethos in Action (F F Orsucci).