Flesh of my Flesh: the Ethics of Cloning Humans

Engineering flesh: towards an ethics of lived integrity

The objective of tissue engineering is to create living body parts that will fully integrate with the recipient's body. With respect to the ethics of tissue engineering, one can roughly distinguish two perspectives. On the one hand, this technology is considered morally good because tissue engineering is 'copying nature'. On the other hand, tissue engineering is considered morally dangerous bec...

Flesh Foods

Resurrection of the Flesh-body

There are a few statements in Scripture which are often adduced as indisputable evidence that we cannot expect a resurrection of this body of flesh. Outstanding among these statements is in the first place Paul's re,. mark in 1 Cor. 15 : 50a: ''Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood can,. not inherit the kingdom of God.''' Already in the early Churcb all who denied the resurrection of t...

Sex in the flesh.

This response to Michael Stolberg argues that the occasional piece of evidence for sexual dimorphism in Renaissance anatomy does no damage to what I had earlier called the "one-sex model." There are three reasons for this: a considerable amount of such evidence had long been available; stray observations do not discredit worldviews; and new supporting evidence for the one-sex model was also ava...

Words Made Flesh

Executable code existed centuries before the invention of the computer in magic, Kabbalah, musical composition and experimental poetry. These practices are often neglected as a historical pretext of contemporary software culture and electronic arts. Above all, they link computations to a vast speculative imagination that encompasses art, language, technology, philosophy and religion. These spec...