Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/922025
- Title
- Genetically engineered people: autonomy and moral virtue
- Author/Creator
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Blackford, Russell
- Institution
- The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
- Description
- I endorse Mark Walker’s thesis that there is no moral difference between genetic interventions to make it more likely that children will develop moral virtues, such as truthfulness, caring, and justice — however, exactly, these are understood — and environmental interventions aimed at the same outcome. In this response, I offer some further considerations that tend to support the thesis in the face of "loss of freedom" or "loss of autonomy" arguments.
- Relation
- Politics and the Life Sciences Vol. 29, Issue 1, p. 82-84
- Relation
- http://politicsandthelifesciences.org/index.html
- Date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Association for Politics and the Life Sciences
- Keyword(s)
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genetic engineering;
moral virtues;
children;
autonomy
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/922025
- Identifier
- ISSN:0730-9384
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