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The aim of this lecture is to enable to understand, analyze, and critically assess bioethical arguments.

First we analyze concepts that play crucial roles in bioethical arguments, concepts like: human life, human being, person, persistence, individual, soul, species, potentiality. Further we analyze some views as to the moral value of actions at the beginning and the end of a human life.

Lecture inputs and discussion.

Oral exam.

Johannes Seidel: Schon Mensch oder noch nicht? Zum ontologischen Status humanbiologischer Keime, Stuttgart 2010.
Tom L. Beauchamp / James F. Childress: Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Oxford ⁵2001.
Bonnie Steinbock (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics, Oxford 2007.
Scott F. Gilbert: Developmental Biology, Sinauer Associates Inc 2006.

For Bachelor's Programme in Philosophy at the Faculty of Catholic Theology (C 033 194): positive completion of compulsory modules 2 and 3.
For Diploma Programme in Catholic Theology (C 011): positive completion of compulsory module 1 (first part of studies).

If you want to take this course but cannot come to the Vorbesprechung on March 2, please contact Prof Paganini (claudia.paganini@uibk.ac.at).