Literatura: |
Selected literature:
Books (online):
Human Dignity and Bioethics. Essays Commissioned by the President’s Council on Bioethics, Washington, D.C. WWW.BIOETHICS.GOV, 2008.
Lennart Nordenfelt, Quality of Life, Health and Happiness, Avebury, 1993.
Articles (online):
Renzo Llorente, „The Moral Framework of Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation”, ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES 16, no.1 2009, 61-80.
Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights, The Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy WBI Studies Repository, 1986.
Joel Feinberg, „The Rights of Animals and Unborn Generations”, Philosophy and Environmental Crisis by William Blackstone (ed.), 43-68, The University of Georgia Press, 1974.
Alan Drengson, The Deep Ecology Movement, Trumpeter (1995) ISSN: 0832-6193, University of Victoria.
Don Marquis, „DEATH IS A BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENON”, Diametros 55 (2018): 20–26.
Courtney S. Cambell, Mortal Responsibilities: Bioethics and Medical-Assisted Dying.
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Efekty uczenia się: |
Learning outcomes:
Knowledge:
- a student knows the main research problems of bioethics KA6_WG17
- is able to search, evaluate and select information using various sources KA6_UU1
Social competence:
- a student is ready to take a critical stance in scientific and philosophical discussions, recognising the importance of knowledge and rational reasoning KA6_KK1
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Zakres tematów: |
The issues:
1. main issues in bioethics – primary focus
2. life as a value
3. anthropocentric ecology vs. deep ecology
4. rights and interests of animals (criteria of subjectivity, positions of T. Regan, A. Naess, P. Singer, and J. Feinberg)
4. the dispute between advocates of the ethics of the value of life and the ethics of the quality of life in modern civilisation, i.e. the issue of life as a relative value and life as an absolute value.
5. the issue of biological and philosophical criteria of humanity against the background of the main bioethical problems: abortion, medically assisted procreation, transplantation, genetic engineering, human cloning.
6. the issue of death
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