202014 VO Bioethics

summer semester 2021 | Last update: 18.03.2021 Place course on memo list
202014
VO Bioethics
VO 1
2
Block
annually
German

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.

Written or oral exam.

General information on exams, dates and sign-on at the department:
https://www.uibk.ac.at/philtheol/pruefungen/index.html.de.

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).

02.03.2021
2. 3. 2021, 19:00, virtuell: Vorbesprechung
Group 0
Date Time Location
Tue 2021-03-02
19.00 - 19.45 eLecture - online eLecture - online Vorbesprechung
Fri 2021-03-05
09.00 - 13.00 eLecture - online eLecture - online
Fri 2021-03-26
09.00 - 13.00 eLecture - online eLecture - online