Which Ethics for Bioethics? The Example of CRISPR-Cas9
(2018) Playing God? — Location: Paris, Institut protestant de Paris, Faculté de Théologie (27.February.2018)
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- (en) It will first be shown, with examples, that contemporary bioethics is in the hands of what the author calls “Small ethics”, namely an individual-centered ethics (centered on dignity in its deontological version, on well-being in its consequentialist one). “Small ethics” encourages a technical vision of bioethics, which loses sight of the “ethical quality” of human actions, in favour of their mere outcome. If Crispr-Cas9 does not lead, from the perspective of “Small ethics”, to any fundamentally new ethical issues, it nonetheless feeds a technical vision of man and society by neutralizing the ethical quality of our relationships with one another. This constitutes a major social impact.
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Hunyadi, M. (2018). Which Ethics for Bioethics? The Example of CRISPR-Cas9. Playing God?, Paris, Institut protestant de Paris, Faculté de Théologie. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/57660