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Rethinking “Liberal Eugenics”: Reflections and Questions on Habermas on Bioethics
Author(s) -
Prusak Bernard G.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1353/hcr.2005.0113
Subject(s) - eugenics , bioethics , sociology , politics , german , epistemology , law , philosophy , environmental ethics , political science , linguistics
In the new “liberal eugenics,” children could be genetically improved as long as the enhancements let children choose from among a wide range of ways to live their lives. The German political philosopher Jürgen Habermas has opened a debate with the proponents of this view. Habermas suggests that a person could not really regard her life as her own if she lived with a body that somebody else had, without asking her opinion, “enhanced” for her.