The Case Against Perfection 在線電子書 圖書標籤: 哲學 genetic 政治哲學 基因工程 倫理學 mobi ethics MichaelSandel
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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.
1 在评价这本书之前先讲个故事——来自反乌托邦YA小说《Uglies》系列,正如许多同类作品一样,它也构建了一个并不美好的未来。 在现代文明已经因人类的贪婪灭亡的几百年后,掌握了更高生物科技的人们为避免重蹈覆辙对每个年满十六岁的公民进行了改造,让其变得更美丽、更健康的...
評分21世纪科技的迅猛进步,赋予人类开展”普罗米修斯式“工程改造人类基因、追求完美以可能,也给人类带来道德和伦理的种种困扰。这正是桑德尔尝试通过这一薄薄小书的提问、探讨和辩证来激发我们思考的触因所在。 以基因工程为例:肌肉增强、记忆力增强、身高提升和性别选择不但...
評分《反对完美》 人性朝神性的进化,两面性存在矛盾:人类集体(一元神)和个体(诸神),导致个人理性无法操纵集体理性。有些个人已经开始感到不安,但集体人类不会浅尝辄止,终将会突破人和神的界限。 读前问题: 一、现在的好等于未来的好吗? 二、好的基因vs好的神经:先天有...
評分看过Prof. Sandel的Justice公开课,也看过书。他的教学态度从容,思维缜密,上课很少背书讲理论,基本上都是通过问题与讨论一步步推进对道德难题的思考。所以来看《反对完美》也算是一种追星吧(并不是。 本书讨论人类是否应通过基因改良追求完美。这实在是一个难题,因为当人...
評分21世纪科技的迅猛进步,赋予人类开展”普罗米修斯式“工程改造人类基因、追求完美以可能,也给人类带来道德和伦理的种种困扰。这正是桑德尔尝试通过这一薄薄小书的提问、探讨和辩证来激发我们思考的触因所在。 以基因工程为例:肌肉增强、记忆力增强、身高提升和性别选择不但...
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