Wittgenstein and the foundations of bioethics: reflections on scientific and religious thinking in modernity

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Wittgenstein and the foundations of bioethics: reflections on scientific and religious thinking in modernity

This thesis argues that bioethics emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s not as a novel way to engage new technological or social ethical questions of life (bios), but rather as a late, post-Enlightenment secular phenomenon. In particular, bioethics seeks to adopt a methodology of theorizing on m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Vest, Matthew
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2018
Subjects:	bioethics religion science wittgenstein
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50902/

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