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How does biotechnology touch on human destiny? What are its
promises and challenges? In search for a response, the present
volume turns to the thought of Hans Jonas, one of the pioneers and
founding fathers of bioethics. The continued relevance of his ideas
is exemplified by the way Jurgen Habermas applies them to the
current debate. The chief promise of biotechnology is to increase
our freedom by overcoming the limits of the human condition. The
main risk of biotechnology, as both Jonas and Habermas see it, is
to diminish or outright abolish our capacity for responsibility and
morality. It is argued that the greater freedom is not simply
freedom from constraints but freedom for our destiny: the freedom
to be the benevolent, responsible, and spontaneous authors of our
lives, capable of communion and love. The touchstone for evaluating
any biotechnological procedure has to be this greater freedom.
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A Greater Freedom (Hardcover)
Stephan Kampowski; Foreword by Stanley Hauerwas
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Synopsis: How does biotechnology touch on human destiny? What are
its promises and challenges? In search for a response, the present
volume turns to the thought of Hans Jonas, one of the pioneers and
founding fathers of bioethics. The continued relevance of his ideas
is exemplified by the way Jurgen Habermas applies them to the
current debate. The chief promise of biotechnology is to increase
our freedom by overcoming the limits of the human condition. The
main risk of biotechnology, as both Jonas and Habermas see it, is
to diminish or outright abolish our capacity for responsibility and
morality. It is argued that the greater freedom is not simply
freedom from constraints but freedom for our destiny: the freedom
to be the benevolent, responsible, and spontaneous authors of our
lives, capable of communion and love. The touchstone for evaluating
any biotechnological procedure has to be this greater freedom.
Endorsements: "It is rare to encounter a book engaging central
moral questions that moves with such facility between philosophical
and linguistic traditions as Kampowski's. By his uncommonly deep
engagement with contemporary and recent thought, in particular
Habermas and the unappreciated contributions of Hans Jonas,
Kampowski has composed a remarkably vibrant and meaningful account
of human nature that offers our relationality--our familialness--as
a corrective to an unmeasured submission of the human to
biotechnological promise." --Joseph E. Capizzi, Associate Professor
of Moral Theology, Catholic University of America "A Greater
Freedom is an excellent and timely introduction to the thought of
two eminent philosophers and their work on biophilosophy,
bioethics, and biotechnology: Hans Jonas and Jurgen Habermas.
Stephan Kampowski enters into an astute dialogue enriched by other
important interlocutors (Spaemann, Arendt, Kass) and is deeply
guided by the theology of love. A most instructive and rewarding
reading for those who want to grasp the boon and bane of
biotechnology." --Reinhard Hutter, Professor of Theology, Duke
University Divinity School "A Greater Freedom is essential reading
for all those who recognize technology can insidiously shape and
form us. This book is particularly important for those who seek a
mature environmental ethic. Kampowski's reading of Jonas teaches us
that living organisms are never 'mere matter, ' and provides a deep
philosophical basis for recognizing the self-determining nature of
the many sentient (and intelligent) creatures who share the planet
with us human beings." --John Berkman, Associate Professor of Moral
Theology, Regis College Author Biography: Stephan Kampowski is
Associate Professor of Philosophical Anthropology at the Pontifical
John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Rome.
He is the author of Arendt, Augustine, and the New Beginning: The
Action Theory and Moral Thought of Hannah Arendt in the Light of
Her Dissertation on St. Augustine (2008).
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