Ethics and the limits of technology /

Ethics and the limits of technology / / Ludwig Siep.

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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)
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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.

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