2013/2014

2014/2015

DM270

M-FIL/03 (MORAL PHILOSOPHY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

PHILOSOPHY

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

1st semester (22/09/2014 - 22/12/2014)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

MAGNI SERGIO FILIPPO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

The students must have passed the examination of moral philosophy

The course introduces the most important theoretical issues of bioethics, through the study of selected texts and bibliography.

Title of the course:
The discussion on genetic enhancement.

As well as to introduce the main concepts of bioethics, the course will address the philosophical discussion on genetic engineering, through the reading of relevant essays of some Anglo-Saxon moral philosophers: S.P. Stich and M. J. Sandel.

Lectures

For the students attending the course:

M. Sandel, Contro la perfezione. L’etica nell’età dell’ingegneria genetica, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2007.
S. Stich, in Il dibattito sul DNA ricombinante, in Maffettone-G. Ferranti, a cura di, Introduzione alla bioetica, Genova, Liguori, 1992, pp. 317-36.
Sergio Filippo Magni, Bioetica, Roma, Carocci, 2011.

Other students have to add:
L. Fonnesu, Storia dell’etica contemporanea. Da Kant alla filosofia analitica, Roma, Carocci, 2006, capp. 10 e 11.

Oral examination

Oral examination