Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught political philosophy since 1980. He is the author of Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (Cambridge University Press, 1982, 2nd edition, 1997; translated into eight foreign languages), Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 1996), Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics (Harvard University Press, 2005), and The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering (Harvard University Press, 2007). His writings also appear in general publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and The New York Times. Sandel teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in contemporary political philosophy, including "Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature," "Markets, Morals, and Law," and "Globalization and Its Critics." His undergraduate course, "Justice," has enrolled over 12,000 students. In 1985, he was awarded the Harvard-Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, and in 1999 was named a Harvard College Professor in recognition of his contributions to undergraduate teaching.
Sandel has lectured to academic and general audiences in North America, Europe, Japan, India, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and China. He was a visiting professor at the Sorbonne (Paris) in 2001, and delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Oxford University in 1998. The recipient of three honorary degrees, he has received fellowships from the Carnegie Corporation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. From 2002 to 2005, he served on the President's Council on Bioethics, a national council appointed by the President to examine the ethical implications of new biomedical technologies. A summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brandeis University (1975), Sandel received his doctorate from Oxford University (D.Phil.,1981), where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He lives with his wife and two sons in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature--to enhance our genetic traits and those of our children. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, it is not easy to articulate why. What is wrong with re-engineering our nature?
The Case against Perfection explores these and other moral quandaries connected with the quest to perfect ourselves and our children. Michael Sandel argues that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyond safety and fairness. The drive to enhance human nature through genetic technologies is objectionable because it represents a bid for mastery and dominion that fails to appreciate the gifted character of human powers and achievements. Carrying us beyond familiar terms of political discourse, this book contends that the genetic revolution will change the way philosophers discuss ethics and will force spiritual questions back onto the political agenda.
In order to grapple with the ethics of enhancement, we need to confront questions largely lost from view in the modern world. Since these questions verge on theology, modern philosophers and political theorists tend to shrink from them. But our new powers of biotechnology make these questions unavoidable. Addressing them is the task of this book, by one of America's preeminent moral and political thinkers.
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评分我真怀疑是翻译问题还是本身的枯燥,反正是硬着头皮读完,再怎么说都是道长推荐的嘛! 其实对于基因工程再造完美人类,不是你愿不愿意,在未来社会制度不变,分配模式不变的情况下,是肯定会大规模商业化于社会,最终主流化,道德化。科技再发达,人性还是一样的贪婪,自大,野...
评分概括的来说,桑德尔反对的是优生学和基因工程等在科学上看起来可以使人类更完美的东西。当然桑德尔对此作出了一个界限的划分,单纯的作为治疗手段以恢复人体健康本身的手段自然不在反对之列。 而反对这些的原因,有一句话来概括说是优生学和基因工程的问题是它代表了...
评分桑德尔这书写得挺随便的;也许是因为我看得随便,一小时翻完,感觉似乎没太系统的论证线索。不过可以借此发点感慨。 我一直对整容的人有种道德上的厌恶,觉得这种人浅薄、不认真对待自己。我也不喜欢F1,觉得这比赛车的影响因素太大,车手的因素太小。电脑下棋...
评分桑德尔这书写得挺随便的;也许是因为我看得随便,一小时翻完,感觉似乎没太系统的论证线索。不过可以借此发点感慨。 我一直对整容的人有种道德上的厌恶,觉得这种人浅薄、不认真对待自己。我也不喜欢F1,觉得这比赛车的影响因素太大,车手的因素太小。电脑下棋...
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