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30Cosmopolitanism Within Borders: A Normative Foundation for Health Care for Asylum Seekers?American Journal of Bioethics 13 (7): 17-19. 2013.Asgary and Smith (2013) identify an important challenge: the difficult position of physicians caught between the obligation to treat every human being with the same professional rigor, and their feelings of responsibility toward the state and its judicial decisions on asylum requests. The authors show that in some cases this conflict leads to a tendency to "sacrifice their medical responsibilities". The authors' core demand is that health care workers should be independent of the state and judic…Read more
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15Mensch, Weltbürger: Über Anspruch und Umsetzbarkeit des moralischen KosmopolitismusIn Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Julian Nida-Rümelin (eds.), Anthropologie und Ethik, De Gruyter. pp. 113-134. 2015.
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13Anthropologie und Ethik (edited book)De Gruyter. 2015.The relationship between anthropology as the study of human beings and ethics as the study of what humans ought to do is close and multifaceted. The authors address the following questions: Are moral norms grounded in human nature or are they independent of it? Does ethics take into account human weaknesses or is morality absolute? If people change, do the requirements of morality change as well?
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15Biotecnologie e argomenti antropologiciIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 24 (3): 499-514. 2011.
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6Naturgeschichte der Freiheit (edited book)de Gruyter. 2007.Mit dem Abschluss des Humangenomprojekts und den Fortschritten der Lebenswissenschaften stellt sich die Frage nach dem Selbstverstandnis des Menschen in geradezu dramatischer Weise. DAs neu gewonnene Wissen uber den Menschen muss analysiert, aufgearbeitet und bewertet werden. NIcht nur in den Lebens-, sondern auch in den Kulturwissenschaften stellt sich daher die Frage nach dem Selbstverstandnis des Menschen, das unsere Handlungen und Bewertungen sowie unsere Orientierung in der Welt pragt. DIe …Read more
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32Anthropological Arguments in the Ethical Debate about Human EnhancementHumana Mente 7 (26). 2014.The paper discusses the role of anthropological arguments in contemporary ethics as exemplified in the current debate about biotechnological human enhancement interventions. Anthropological arguments refer to a normative conception of what it means to be a human being and are highly contested in contemporary moral philosophy. Most often they are promoted to constrain the ethically acceptable use of enhancement technologies. I argue that anthropological arguments can play a fundamental and import…Read more
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68Evaluating human enhancements: the importance of idealsMonash Bioethics Review 32 (3-4): 205-216. 2014.Is it necessary to have an ideal of perfection in mind to identify and evaluate true biotechnological human “enhancements”, or can one do without? To answer this question we suggest employing the distinction between ideal and non-ideal theory, found in the debate in political philosophy about theories of justice: the distinctive views about whether one needs an idea of a perfectly just society or not when it comes to assessing the current situation and recommending steps to increase justice. In …Read more
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43Der Cyborg und die Frage nach dem Menschen. Kritische Überlegungen zum „homo arte emendatus et correctus“Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft Und Ethik 12 (1): 21-44. 2007.
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25The debate about 'human enhancement' and its anthropological dimensionMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 13 (2): 177-179. 2010.
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11Schwerpunkt: Der Pragmatismus als Theorie globaler GerechtigkeitDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 64 (5): 738-739. 2016.Name der Zeitschrift: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie Jahrgang: 64 Heft: 5 Seiten: 738-739.
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220Human enhancement and perfectionJournal of Medical Ethics 39 (10): 647-650. 2013.Both, bioconservatives and bioliberals, should seek a discussion about ideas of human perfection, making explicit their underlying assumptions about what makes for a good human life. This is relevant, because these basic, and often implicit ideas, inform and influence judgements and choices about human enhancement interventions. Both neglect, and polemical but inconsistent use of the complex ideas of perfection are leading to confusion within the ethical debate about human enhancement interventi…Read more
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17Konflikte in der Ethik: Anmerkungen aus pragmatistischer PerspektiveIn Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Julian Nida-Rümelin (eds.), Moral, Wissenschaft Und Wahrheit, De Gruyter. pp. 145-160. 2016.
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Ludwig Maximilians Universität, MünchenFaculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of ReligionRegular Faculty