The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering (2007), by Michael J. Sandel
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The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering [4], hereafter referred to as The Case against Perfection, written by Michael J. Sandel, builds on a short essay featured in The Atlantic Monthly magazine in 2004. Three years later, Sandel transformed his article into a book, keeping the same title but expanding upon his personal critique of genetic engineering. The purpose of Sandel?s book is to articulate the sources of what he considers to be widespread public unease related to genetic engineering that changes the course of natural development.
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The case against perfection Ethics in the age of genetic engineering
In book Delta of The metaphysics, Aristotle provided the oldest known definition of perfection: “That is perfect which is complete — which contains all the requisite parts; which is so good that nothing of the kind could be better; which has attained its purpose” (1). In Michael Sandel’s book The case against perfection: ethics in the age of genetic engineering, Aristotle figures only as a sour...
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