Ethics and Equity

Paul B. Thompson ()
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Paul B. Thompson: Michigan State University

Chapter 7 in Socio-Economic Considerations in Biotechnology Regulation, 2014, pp 97-107 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Perspectives and views regarding rights are often developed as an attempt to specify the basic freedoms or capabilities that are necessary for human flourishing. Although views on rights acknowledge that natural scarcities constrain the potential for flourishing, they insist that when the action of one human limits the potential of another, this is the paradigmatic case calling for ethical critique. Rights are intended to protect human beings from oppression by other human beings; they are not to be understood as entitlements against the natural world. An alternative starting point is that of “values.” In either case, what is needed is an articulation of the ethical theories under the identified rights or values.

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Social Choice; Agricultural Biotechnology; Social Choice Theory; Ethical Critique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-9440-9_7

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