CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Kulic, Ivana |
|---|---|
| Title | Genetic engineering as a moral duty |
| Summary | The following thesis aims to support the idea that genetic engineering should be considered a moral duty. To achieve this, I am presenting two of my arguments that rely on a broader position of transhumanist authors, mainly Julian Savulescu and his Principle of procreative beneficence. The first argument presents the case that there is a moral duty to achieve the best state of well-being possible even through the use of biological procedures on the child’s DNA material. Furthermore, the goal of this argument is also to justify the ability of parents to choose disabilities for their future child based on the contextualist account of health. This is offered as one of the solutions for the limitations that liberal eugenics face. The second part of this thesis focuses on an argument that genetic engineering should also be perceived as a moral duty based on the assumption that due to the current crisis with climate change and resource depletion the quality of human life will be severely downgraded and genetic engineering might be the only option to avoid the catastrophe and ensure the survival of human species. |
| Supervisor | Simon Rippon |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/kulic_ivana.pdf |
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