Quo vadis humanity? On genetic engineering : Book review: Michael Sandel, “The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering”, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts), London (England) 2007, pp. 162

• Authors: Agata Miętek

Abstracts

EN

The most important task of contemporary science is to serve humanity. It seems that technology develops in two different ways. On the one hand technology does everything to make human’s life carefree, easy and safe. But on the other scientists do their best to solve most pressing problems so that people could once and for all forget about troubles like AIDS, cancer or Alzheimer’s disease. Until today technical progress was followed by the progress of the humanity but it seems that contemporary hi-technology left behind moral reflections of people. Michael Sandel’s book e Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering is a moral reflection on those problems accompanied by technological changes. It is an attempt to establish a border that cannot be crossed – on its one side human being is still a human being but on the other one it is just an artificially stimulated machine.

Keywords

EN

Agata Miętek; Michael Sandel; book review

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 36
• Pages: 280-283

Dates

published

2007

Contributors

author

Agata Miętek

• Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland)

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ppsy2007019

Biblioteka Nauki

2031781