Ethics and the limits of technology / / Ludwig Siep.

• VerfasserIn: Siep, Ludwig,
• Place / Publishing House: Paderborn, Germany : : Brill Mentis,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (175 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Global Crises, Value Consensus, Technology and Nature -- Chapter 1: Philosophical Ethics: Scope and Methods -- 1.1 Moral Language and Moral Point of View -- 1.2 Values and Evaluations -- 1.2.1 Goodness and Values -- 1.2.2 Ethics and Moral Values -- 1.2.3 Moral Realism, Evaluations and Descriptions -- 1.3 Ethics and Anthropology -- 1.4 Irreversible Ethical Experiences -- 1.5 The Claims and Limits of Philosophical Ethics -- Chapter 2: The Concepts of Technology and Nature -- 2.1 Technology -- 2.1.1 Progress or Alienation -- 2.1.2 "Development" and Ethical Deliberation -- 2.2 Nature -- Chapter 3: Values of Nature -- 3.1 Types of Values Regarding Nature -- 3.2 Values of Human Preservation and Flourishing -- 3.3 Values of Individual and Collective Identity, Meaning and Virtue -- 3.4 Values of Respect and Justice Concerning Non-human Living Beings -- 3.5 Values from a "Cosmic Point of View" -- 3.6 The Value of Naturalness -- Chapter 4: Values of Technology with Respect to Nature -- 4.1 Technical Perfection of the Human Being -- 4.1.1 Longevity and Immortality -- 4.1.2 Imperfection and Vulnerability as Values? -- 4.2 Values of Technology Regarding Non-human Nature -- 4.2.1 Values of Control and Improvement -- Chapter 5: Valuable Aims and Justified Limits -- 5.1 The Paradox of Self-limitation -- 5.2 Human Rights and Human Perfection -- 5.2.1 Human Perfection as a Right or Duty -- 5.2.2 Criteria for Directions and Limits of Human Self-perfection -- 5.2.3 Limits for the Human Quest to Knowledge? -- 5.3 Limits for the Technical Perfection of Non-human Nature -- 5.3.1 Human Rights and the Perfection of Non-human Nature -- 5.3.2 Claims of Moral Subjects and Natural Sources of Value -- 5.3.3 Values of Naturalness as Limits for Technology -- 5.4 Conflicting Values.

Chapter 6: Perfection, Self-limitation and Re-integration -- Bibliography -- Index.