English
Deutsch
Français
简体中文
繁體中文
Categories
Study
Novel
Nonfiction
Health
Tutorial
Entertainment
Business
Magazine
Arts & Design
Audiobooks & Video Training
Cultures & Languages
Family & Home
Law & Politics
Lyrics & Music
Software Related
eBook Torrents
Uncategorized
Share With Friends
Archive by Date
2012-08-05
2012-08-04
2012-08-03
2012-08-02
2012-08-01
2012-07-31
2012-07-30
2012-07-29
2012-07-28
Search Tag
Newest
Law & Politics Tortured Justice: Using Coerced Evidence to Prosecute Terrorist Suspects
Law & Politics Tortured Justice: Using Coerced Evidence to Prosecute Terrorist Suspects
Law & Politics Intellectual Property Rights
Law & Politics Tortured Justice: Using Coerced Evidence to Prosecute Terrorist Suspects
Law & Politics Imbalance of Powers
Law & Politics Rights of the People by Melvin Urofsky
Law & Politics The ABC of European Union Law
Law & Politics Aktuelle Probleme des Wissenschaftsrechts: Arbeitstagung anlässlich der Eröffnung des Instituts für Öffentliches Recht an der Juristischen Fakultät der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Law & Politics Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States
Law & Politics Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship
Law & Politics How to Retire Abroad by Roger Jones
Law & Politics Living and Working in Australia
Law & Politics Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches
Law & Politics Modern Law of the Sea: Selected Essays
Law & Politics Information Feudalism: Who owns the Knowledge Economy ?
Law & Politics Darkness: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State
Law & Politics Going to Live in Australia by Mary Neilson, Mathew Collins
Law & Politics The Accidental Leader: What to Do When You're Suddenly in Charge
Law & Politics Smash and Grab, Conflict, Corruption, and Human Rights Abuse In the Shrimp Farming Industry
Useful Links
Law & Politics Lyrics: Liberal Eugenics
Posted on 2010-04-13
|  |
More The title of this clear, scientifically well informed and philosophically sophisticated study is slightly misleading. What Agar is primarily interested in and what he strives to defend is not so much human enhancement as reproductive freedom. Whereas traditional eugenics is concerned with the improvement of human stock and its proponents consequently advocate a strict regulation of reproduction, Agar does not want to commit himself to a particular view of what would count as such an improvement. People have different conceptions of what makes a good life and what characteristics are desirable. From a liberal perspective, these differences ought to be respected, which rules out any form of authoritarian eugenics. What humans should be like is not for the State to decide. For the same reason, however, people should also be free to use enhancement technologies on their children in order to realize their own personal conception of human excellence, i.e. to make their children, in accordance with their own standards, better than they would otherwise be. Here, likewise, the state has no left to interfere. Just as a liberal outlook precludes any form of authoritarian eugenics, it encourages us to adopt a liberal eugenics which embraces not a monistic but a pluralistic view of human excellence. In this manner,
Rating:
2.5 out of 5 by Book123 |
| Download Links | |
| Server | Status |
|---|---|
|
No download url, please check the above content. Free download from UseNet >> Can not download? Search other download URLs here >> Buy This Book at Best Price >> | |
Related Articles
 | Technical Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings: The Eugenics Society, its sources and its critics in Britain ISBN: 0415044243 Publisher: Routledge Author: Pauline MazumdarDescription:This outstanding history examines the eugenics movement from its origin to its heyday as the source of a science of human genetics. Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human ... |
 | Law & Politics Lyrics: Nancy Ordover - American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism Nancy Ordover - American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of NationalismUniversity of Minnesota Press | 2003 | ISBN: 0816635587 | Pages: 297 | PDF | 5.39 MBThe Nazis may have given eugenics its negative connotations, but the p ... |
 | Law & Politics Lyrics: Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States Monique Deveaux ,"Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States"Oxford University Press | February 3, 2007 | ISBN: 0199289794 | 274 pages | PDF | 1.01 mbGender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States explores the challenges that cu ... |
 | Law & Politics Lyrics: Third Force Politics: Liberal Democrats at the Grassroots Patrick Seyd , Paul Whiteley , Antony Billinghurst ,"Third Force Politics: Liberal Democrats at the Grassroots"Oxford University Press | October 5, 2006 | ISBN: 0199242828 | 256 pages | PDF | 3.47 mbBased on extensive research and a nationa ... |
 | Law & Politics Lyrics: Liberal Lion: Jo Grimond: A Political Life Liberal Lion: Jo Grimond: A Political Life By Peter Barberis Publisher: I. B. Tauris | ISBN: 1850436274 | edition 2005 | PDF | 256 pages | 2,2 mb His numerous writings and his ten-year leadership of the Liberal party established him as o ... |
 | Law & Politics Lyrics: The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World Samir Amin, "The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World"Publisher: Pluto Press | 2004 | ISBN 0745323596 | PDF | 198 pages | 2.9 MBSamir Amin's ambitious new book argues that the ongoing American project to dominat ... |
Comments (0)
