Friday, October 24, 2003

LRB | Slavoj Zizek : Bring me my Philips Mental Jacket

LRB | Slavoj Zizek : Bring me my Philips Mental Jacket: "Do we today have an available bioethics? Yes, we do, a bad one: what the Germans call Bindestrich-Ethik, or 'hyphen-ethics', where what gets lost in the hyphenation is ethics as such. The problem is not that a universal ethics is being dissolved into a multitude of specialised ones (bioethics, business ethics, medical ethics and so on) but that particular scientific breakthroughs are immediately set against humanist 'values', leading to complaints that biogenetics, for example, threatens our sense of dignity and autonomy."

Good reading on bioethics of the Kuro5hin story of the same topic.

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