Exploring the middle ground between abstract and applied ethics from the perspective of virtue et... more Exploring the middle ground between abstract and applied ethics from the perspective of virtue ethics, the author singles out a number of virtues pertinent to genomics in general and the related area of human reproductive cloning in particular, giving special attention to the virtues of curiosity and scepticism. he mapping and sequencing of the human genome has sparked a spir-Tited public debate regarding the ethical implications of this new knowledge. Broadly, the debate has proceeded at two levels of ethical reflection: first, overarching questions about human nature -for example, the way and the degree to which our genetic endowment reflects and summarizes the more elusive concept of our 'humanity'. Chemistry Nobel Prize winner, Walter Gilbert, in 'A Vision of the Grail', indicates that knowledge of the genome will answer the questions: 'What actually specifies the human organism? What makes us humane James Watson spoke of the human genome project (HGP) as a search 'to find out what being human is.'2 Admonitory writing at this level tends to warn against the temptation to 'play God', and hearkens back to the enormities connected to the eugenics movements of the early part of the last century.
Exploring the middle ground between abstract and applied ethics from the perspective of virtue et... more Exploring the middle ground between abstract and applied ethics from the perspective of virtue ethics, the author singles out a number of virtues pertinent to genomics in general and the related area of human reproductive cloning in particular, giving special attention to the virtues of curiosity and scepticism. he mapping and sequencing of the human genome has sparked a spir-Tited public debate regarding the ethical implications of this new knowledge. Broadly, the debate has proceeded at two levels of ethical reflection: first, overarching questions about human nature -for example, the way and the degree to which our genetic endowment reflects and summarizes the more elusive concept of our 'humanity'. Chemistry Nobel Prize winner, Walter Gilbert, in 'A Vision of the Grail', indicates that knowledge of the genome will answer the questions: 'What actually specifies the human organism? What makes us humane James Watson spoke of the human genome project (HGP) as a search 'to find out what being human is.'2 Admonitory writing at this level tends to warn against the temptation to 'play God', and hearkens back to the enormities connected to the eugenics movements of the early part of the last century.
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