Anatomija jednog paternalističkog i anti-liberalnog stava prema suvremenoj eugenici
Anatomy of a Paternalist and Anti-liberal - View on Contemporary Eugenics

Summary/Abstract: The author dissects a polemic by Tonèi Matuliæ against Polšek’s book Sudbina odabranih (Destiny of the Chosen Ones. Eugenics in the Age of Genetic Technology) printed in Filozofska istra®ivanja, 98 (3/2005), pp. 671–693. The main point of the article is a dissection of Matuliæ’s views that there is no fundamental difference between old eugenics and new, and of his overall anti-liberal, paternalist, and allegedly ‘bioetical’ contentions. Polšek uses J. St. Mill’s arguments from On Liberty and argues that a democratic and a just society has to respect ‘mere wishes‘ of prospective parents when fulfilling their right to bear children, as to be able, among other things, to avoid far greater dangers of collectivism and all sorts of state intervention in private matters, from which ugly forms of eugenics arose in the past.

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