The Bioethics of the "Crazy Ape" collects a wide range of bioethical topics. Bioethical questions are eternal by nature, although our technologized times transform old issues in forms never before experienced. Just like the famous scientist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi believed in his time, we also believe that all the contributing authors recognised their moral responsibility in adding new approaches to the continuum of each debate. Although this responsibility has became increasingly complex, we must avoid to become barriers of the scientific development. Bioethics as an applied field of philosophy should always try to establish a framework for a sustainable world: in daily clinical practice, in cases of human experiments, and (not least) in the natural environment.

Pastor Fritz Jahr used the term bioethics as early as 1927. It was not until the early 1970s that the term was rediscovered in the United States. Since then, the relevance of this emergent academic field of studies has permanently been growing, as the age of biotechnological and medical innovations has only just begun. Enormous progress can be expected in various areas relevant to bioethical discourses in the coming decades and centuries. In the past years, the invention of CRISPR/Cas9 has radically changed the possibilities concerning genetic modifications, even germline modifications have turned into a practical option. These developments need to be investigated by academics from various disciplines, which is the reason why the conference series on Bioethics in the New Age of Science was initialized. The present volume consists in selected papers from the first International Conference on Bioethics in the New Age of Science, which took place on the 4th and 5th of May 2017 at the "Vasile Goldis" West University of Arad, Romania.

La conversación civil (Brescia, 1574) de Stefano Guazzo (1530-1593) es uno de los diálogos renacentistas sobre la educación moral de mayor éxito e influencia en Europa: todo un análisis de los diferentes tipos de conversacion, publica o privada, entre amigos, entre jovenes y viejos, entre alfabetizados y analfabetos, entre nobles y plebeyos de la Italia del Renacimiento. La civil conversazione nacio del sentido social humanistico para responder a una necesidad de la vida ciudadana, para un compromiso civico, un civismo que durante años fue el nucleo de escritos como los de Leon Battista Alberti. Este libro ofrece la transcripcion de la primera y unica traduccion al castellano de la obra italiana, realizada por Joseph Gerardo de Hervas a principios del siglo XVIII, que habia quedado manuscrita hasta la actualidad, pasando inadvertida. La obra considera las diferentes esferas sociales, conforme a la diversidad de las personas, y propone los principios generales para una perfecta conversacion y convivencia.Esta obra, El cortesano de Baltasar Castiglione y el Galateo de Giovanni della Casa conforman los tres manuales sobre comportamiento mas en boga en la sociedad europea renacentista, un cauce para introducir las costumbres y las belle maniere italianas, asi como para moldear dicha sociedad.

El presente estudio titulado “Non omnis moriar” (No moriré del todo), presenta un trabajo multidisciplinar por las distintas áreas que afronta trasversalmente permitiendo acceder en una primera parte

O presente trabalho tem como intuito analisar a força da utilização do argumento da reserva do possível – comumente utilizado pelo Estado para justificar o inadimplemento de deveres constitucionais i

Artificial Morality: An Exploration of Moral Machines is an exploration of the ethical and philosophical challenges in developing artificial intelligence systems capable of moral reasoning and behaviour. Bridging centuries of philosophical debate with analyses of large language models, this book examines how shifting conceptions of human identity and the evolution of technology shape our understanding of morality. It critiques anthropocentric views of ethical agency while proposing innovative frameworks for aligning AI with diverse human values. Through a deep dive into the technical architectures of current AI systems, discussions on machine consciousness, and the risks posed by autonomous systems, Andrei Nutas charts a path for embedding principles like fairness, privacy, and accountability into future intelligent machines. This study concludes by advocating for the nurturing of machine wisdom, guided by universal principles that transcend rigid exceptionalism, ultimately aiming to foster a more compassionate and equitable future for all sentient beings.

ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover AwardWe live in a culture of commodification. People are too often defined by what they do or own; theyre treated as means to an end or cogs in a machine. What goes missing is a deep sense of personhoodthe belief that all humans are unique subjects with inherent worth and the right to self-determination in authentic communion with others.In a world dominated by things, Paul Louis Metzger argues, we must work hard to account for one anothers personhood. We need to cultivate relational structures that honor every humans dignity in vital interpersonal community. The theological and philosophical framework known as personalism can help guide us toward such a culture. Drawing from a wide range of thought leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr. and Pope John Paul II, Metzger presents a personalist moral vision founded on the Christian ideals of faith, hope, and love. He demonstrates how this moral compass can help us navigate a pluralistic world by applying it to a variety of pressing ethical issues, including abortion, genetic engineering, immigration, drone warfare, and more.More Than Things is perfect as a supplemental text for philosophy or ethics courses and for those who want to go deeper in the study of human dignity and worth. Ultimately human personhood begins with the personal, triune God, who invites us to live more fully as human beings. With this book, learn to refuse to reduce fellow humansand yourselfto mere abstractions or objects, and follow the example of Jesus in honoring the value of every person and of creaturely life as a whole.

Racism. Immigration. Gun violence. Sexuality. Health care.The number of ethical issues that demand a response from Christians today is almost dizzying. How can Christians navigate such matters? What are faithful responses to these questions?Edited by two theologians with pastoral experience, this volume invites engagement with these issues and more by drawing on real-life experiences and offering a range of responses to some of the most challenging moral questions confronting the church today. With an unflinching yet irenic approach, this resource can help Christians as they seek to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God.

A Matter of Choice represents a substantive discussion of the concept of choice in human affairs, taken against the backdrop of ethics and religion. Drawing on a range of contributions, Hodgkiss demonstrates in this study that, though often not the primary issue under consideration, a concern with choice has featured continually in human thought from the Hellenistic world of the Stoics to the post-Kantian environment of modern philosophy. Moreover, he argues that the social and historical dimension of choice has been consistently underplayed, and that the role of choice in modern economic and political developments is underestimated at our peril. Through a critical account of the literature, Hodgkiss adeptly diagnoses the insufficiency of the current conception of the choice-making sovereign individual in the contemporary liberal-democratic capitalist context and outlines the implications of this philosophy for the choice-maker.

A Matter of Choice represents a substantive discussion of the concept of choice in human affairs, taken against the backdrop of ethics and religion. Drawing on a range of contributions, Hodgkiss demonstrates in this study that, though often not the primary issue under consideration, a concern with choice has featured continually in human thought from the Hellenistic world of the Stoics to the post-Kantian environment of modern philosophy. Moreover, he argues that the social and historical dimension of choice has been consistently underplayed, and that the role of choice in modern economic and political developments is underestimated at our peril. Through a critical account of the literature, Hodgkiss adeptly diagnoses the insufficiency of the current conception of the choice-making sovereign individual in the contemporary liberal-democratic capitalist context and outlines the implications of this philosophy for the choice-maker.

What makes us who we are? Are we born good or evil? Do we have free will? What drives our behaviour and why? Can technology change what it means to be human? In this thoroughly revised second edition of Emotional Amoral Egoism, Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan demonstrates the impact of our innate predispositions on key issues, from conflict, inequality and transcultural understanding to Big Data, fake news and the social contract. However, it is the societies we live in and their governance structures that largely determine how we act on our innate predispositions. Consequently, Al-Rodhan proposes a new and sustainable good governance paradigm, which must reconcile the ever-present tension between the three attributes of human nature (Emotional Amoral Egoism) and the nine critical needs of human dignity. This book is a perfect resource for enlightened readers, academics and policy makers interested in how our innate instincts and tendencies shape the world we live in, and how the interplay between neurophilosophy and policy can be harnessed for pragmatic and sustainable peace, security and prosperity solutions for all, at all times and under all circumstances.

What makes us who we are? Are we born good or evil? Do we have free will? What drives our behaviour and why? Can technology change what it means to be human? In this thoroughly revised second edition of Emotional Amoral Egoism, Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan demonstrates the impact of our innate predispositions on key issues, from conflict, inequality and transcultural understanding to Big Data, fake news and the social contract. However, it is the societies we live in and their governance structures that largely determine how we act on our innate predispositions. Consequently, Al-Rodhan proposes a new and sustainable good governance paradigm, which must reconcile the ever-present tension between the three attributes of human nature (Emotional Amoral Egoism) and the nine critical needs of human dignity. This book is a perfect resource for enlightened readers, academics and policy makers interested in how our innate instincts and tendencies shape the world we live in, and how the interplay between neurophilosophy and policy can be harnessed for pragmatic and sustainable peace, security and prosperity solutions for all, at all times and under all circumstances.

Este libro reúne las investigaciones más avanzadas de Edmund Husserl sobre la moral y la ética, elaboradas en sus últimos años.En este libro, el fundador de la fenomenología desplaza su atención desde los valores como objetos ideales hacia la voluntad concreta que se dirige a fines. Este giro etico, impulsado por el trauma de la Gran Guerra, abre paso a una comprension de la persona como centro activo de sentido, en la que el amor antes que el deber se convierte en la base misma de la vida moral.A partir de este desplazamiento, Husserl aborda nociones como el sacrificio, la entrega amorosa y la dignidad, no como abstracciones normativas, sino como experiencias vividas que revelan la estructura profunda del sujeto etico. Lejos de una etica formal, estas lecciones tardias dan cuerpo a una fenomenologia existencial, intimamente ligada a la vida concreta y a la posibilidad de una renovacion interior del mundo a traves de la voluntad.

Christianity Today 2019 Book of the Year Award of Merit, Apologetics/EvangelismWhat arguments best support the existence of God?For centuries the moral argumentthat objective morality points to the existence of Godhas been a powerful apologetic tool.In this volume, David and Marybeth Baggett offer a dramatic, robust, and even playful version of the moral argument. Tracing both its historical importance and its contemporary relevance, they argue that it not only still points to Gods existence but that it also contributes to our ongoing spiritual transformation.

Ethics in Archaeological Practice explores urgent topics and issues in archaeology as currently practiced in the classroom, the field, the museum, and the public sphere. While addressed primarily to archaeologists working in western Asia, the eastern Mediterranean, and North Africa, the volume raises contemporary ethical questions around race, gender, disability, climate change, and cultural heritage that are pressing and relevant to archaeology students and professionals worldwide. The fifteen contributors offer fundamental case studies and practical guidance for best practices and models of high standards of ethical practice in professional conduct. Together, they offer new approaches to advocacy and the responsible stewardship of heritage sites, collections, and the environment. These compelling and generative discussions make the case for a 21st century archaeology that is proactive and engaged with discourses addressing equity, social justice, anti-colonialism, and climate change.

A lo largo de sus páginas, se ofrece una mirada crítica a las tradiciones éticas predominantes, al tiempo que se propone la necesidad de una nueva sensibilidad moral que reconozca el valor intrínseco del mundo natural. Comprender el devenir de estas ideas resulta esencial para enfrentar los desafios ecologicos de nuestro tiempo.Dirigida a quienes desean entrelazar la filosofia con la urgente reflexion sobre nuestras practicas ecologicas, esta obra invita a repensar la manera en que habitamos el planeta.

Introducción a la ciencia moral, primer opus magnum que compusiera Georg Simmel, inédito hasta ahora en castellano y tampoco disponible en inglés, tiene por propósito desarrollar un enfoque histórico, psicologico y sociologico de la moralidad. Segun señalo Donald Levine, de una manera similar a la primera gran obra de Durkheim (), precisamente el mismo año (1893), el texto de Simmel afirma que el estudio contemporaneo de la moralidad requiere la formacion de una nueva disciplina, a saber: una ciencia de la moral.A lo largo de los textos aqui traducidos por Lionel Lewkow, Simmel desarrolla consideraciones criticas sobre temas centrales de la reflexion etica: el sentido del deber, el egoismo y el altruismo, la culpa, el imperativo categorico o la nocion de libertad. En las interpretaciones de la produccion de Simmel, la dimension moral de su sociologia y filosofia ha quedado descuidada. Esta publicacion aspira a cubrir este vacio exegetico.Con prefacio de Daniel Chernilo y posfacio de Esteban Vernik.

Hay numerosas historias de la filosofía, pero no existía aún una historia de la inteligencia y la ética animales entendida como un recorrido por las concepciones sobre ese espejo insondable que es la mente animal. Este libro expone las diferentes posturas gnoseologicas y eticas sostenidas en relacion con el animal no humano desde los origenes del pensamiento occidental hasta el presente. Explora asi un terreno hasta ahora virgen y arroja descubrimientos insospechados sobre lo que filosofos y cientificos han dicho de los animales en analogia con el ser humano dotado de razon.La zoonoetica se ofrece como una nueva disciplina que estudia la inteligencia del animal no humano en su relacion con el humano, asi como el conjunto de actitudes, comportamientos, sensibilidades y valores de este para con aquel. Al considerar al animal no humano no como objeto, sino como un sujeto distinto al humano, su preocupacion esencial es la articulacion de la convivencia entre ambos.Una relectura de la filosofia y de la ciencia que situa al animal como sujeto y plantea las bases de una nueva convivencia entre humanos y animales.Cuando juego con mi gata, quien sabe si es ella la que pasa el tiempo conmigo mas que yo con ella. (Michel de Montaigne)Que yo ya he sido antes un joven y una joven, / un matorral y un pajaro y mudo pez del mar. (Empedocles)

Durante muchos siglos el suicidio se consideró un pecado mortal o el indicio de una enfermedad mental. Esta visión cambia durante el siglo XX y surge una nueva cultura del morir.La muerte propia se considera cada mas un "proyecto" que el mismo individuo tiene que diseñar y responsabilizarse de el. Quien se quita la vida no solo pretende acabar con ella, sino que tambien quiere asumirla y darle un nuevo sentido.En este libro, Thomas Macho explica la polifacetica historia del suicidio en la Modernidad y describe como el valor de la muerte voluntaria ha ido cambiando en los campos culturales mas diversos: en la politica (como acto de protesta y como atentado), en el derecho (con la despenalizacion del suicidio) y en la medicina (con la eutanasia), asi como en la filosofia, en el arte y en los medios. El autor se remonta hasta las raices culturales del suicidio, analiza periodicos, peliculas y obras de artes. Estudia casos reales y, sobre todo, muestra de que modo los diversos motivos del suicidio se evocan entre si. Su diagnostico es que vivimos en una epoca cada vez mas fascinada por el suicidio.

Estamos ante un libro que hace un homenaje a un gran libro, un libro que ya podemos decir que está en el panteón de los libros clásicos. Pocos libros han tenido un impacto tan hondo en el pensamiento moral como After virtue en 1981. Su autor, Alasdair MacIntyre, ha introducido un profundo cambio en muchos campos desde sus paginas. Nadie en los ultimos cuarenta años en la etica puede esquivar su desafio. Por ello, un grupo internacional de especialistas en MacIntyre hemos querido recoger lo que ha significado el impacto mundial de este libro en estas cuatro decadas y dar a conocer lo que ha supuesto al menos en el mundo iberoamericano. Este libro consta de tres partes fundamentales. La primera parte analiza los conceptos y perspectivas fundamentales de la obra de MacIntyre (aristotelismo, cristianismo, narratividad, tradicion, bien comun, dependencia, deseo). La segunda parte, siguiendo el propio espiritu de MacIntyre, confronta y compara la aportacion de MacIntyre con autores relevantes como Charles Taylor y Michael Sandel, E. Anscombe, B. Williams, J. Pieper y M. Weber. La tercera parte quiere recoger algunos ambitos de la etica donde el pensamiento de MacIntyre esta siendo fecundo, inspirador, sugerente como son el de la enfermeria y la medicina, el derecho y la justicia, la reflexion sobre el estado, la ecologia, las nuevas tecnologias, la teologia, la psicologia, la Universidad, la educacion y finalmente la vida de las personas corrientes. La obra que presentamos es la segunda reflexion de un conjunto de autores, de una comunidad de investigacion, la mayoria iberoamericanos, que hace dos años de modo conjunto publicamos Alasdair MacIntyre: relecturas iberoamercianas (Dykinson, 2020). MacIntyre ha creado una red de trabajo e investigacion muy sugerente y fructifera en español y portugues que ya tiene un recorrido. Con este nuevo libro, homenaje a After virtue, reconocemos que solo una profunda vuelta a las virtudes y lo que suponen en el fondo, se puede coser este mundo roto, curar este mundo herido y vulnerado.