Three Types of Freedom
Three Types of Freedom

Author(s): Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Philosophy, Social Sciences
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: genetic enhancement; morphological freedom; procreative freedom; educative freedom; libertarian vs social democratic bioethics; pragmatic hermeneutic approach; freedom–equality balance
Summary/Abstract: In this article I put forward some guidelines concerning the question: What is the best way of dealing with the norm of "freedom" concerning questions of genetic enhancement? I wish to defend that a pragmatic hermeneutic approach which argues by means of analogies represents a more plausible way of responding to the various challenges in question than either a libertarian or a liberal social democratic one.Aswe are dealingwith"(New) Perspectives in Bioethics", I focus on the topic of genetic enhancement, because it touches and challenges the most fundamental believes of human beings and it seems to me that it will be the topic which will be of particular relevance to law makers, ethicists, and philosophers for many years to come.

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