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2011
Barilan, Y. M. (2011): Respect for personal autonomy, human dignity, and the problems of self-directedness and botched autonomy. In: The Journal of medicine and philosophy 36 (5), S. 496-515. DOI: 10.1093/jmp/jhr035

DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22021657

Abstract: This paper explores the value of respect for personal autonomy in relation to clearly immoral and irrational acts committed freely and intentionally by competent people. Following Berlin's distinction between two kinds of liberty and Darwall's two kinds of respect, it is argued that coercive suppression of nonautonomous, irrational, and self-harming acts of competent persons is offensive to their human dignity, but not disrespectful of personal autonomy. Irrational and immoral choices made by competent people may claim only the negative liberty to be left alone. Lives disposed to autonomy are worthy of solidarity and active support in addition to the right of free choice and action. Autonomous premeditated desires (distinguished from mere consent) may embody transcendental choices, which transcend consideration of physical and psychological well-being. Choices made by incompetent persons (e.g., children and the mentally disabled) are not related to autonomy, but to self-directedness. The value of human dignity confers protection to self-directedness, but not at the expense of other vital interests.

Keywords: Bioethics, Decision Making, Humans, Morals, Personal Autonomy, Personhood, Philosophy, Medical
Elliott, Carl (2011): Enhancement technologies and the modern self. In: The Journal of medicine and philosophy 36 (4), S. 364-374. DOI: 10.1093/jmp/jhr031

DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21903906

Abstract: Many people feel uneasy about enhancement technologies, yet have a hard time explaining why. This unease is often less with the technologies themselves than about the desires and aspirations that they express. I suggest here that we can diagnose the source of that unease by looking at three themes that emerge in Taylor's writings about the making of the modern self: the importance of social recognition, the ethics of authenticity, and the rise of instrumental reason.

Keywords: Anerkennung, Anerkennung und das moderne Selbst (Taylor), Biomedical Enhancement/ethics, doppelter Treffer, Ego, Favoriten, Human Enhancement Technologies, Humans, Konstitutionen des Selbst (Anerkennung), Mensch-Technik-Relationen (MTR), Modelle/Theorien, Morals, Philosophy, Medical, Realtechnik, recognition and Charles Taylor, Social Identification, Soziale Angemessenheit, Taylor, Technik

2011

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