Shaping Our Selves: On Technology, Flourishing, and a Habit of Thinking

by Erik Parens

Book Overview

When bioethicists debate the use of technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves, they are, ultimately, debating what it means for human beings to flourish. They are debating what makes animals like us truly happy, and whether the technologies at issue will bring us closer to or farther from such happiness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019064589X
• ISBN13: 9780190645892
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"