The Moral Status of Artificial Life

被引：15

作者：

Baertschi, Bernard ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Geneva, Inst Biomed Eth, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland

来源：

ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES | 2012年 / 21卷 / 01期

关键词：

Moral status; intrinsic value; artificial life; moral responsibility;

D O I：

10.3197/096327112X13225063227907

中图分类号：

B82 [伦理学（道德学）];

学科分类号：

摘要：

Recently at the J. Craig Venter Institute, a microorganism has been created through synthetic biology. In the future, more complex living beings will very probably be produced. In our natural environment, we live amongst a whole variety of beings. Some of them have moral status-they have a moral importance and we cannot treat them in just any way we please -; some do not. When it becomes possible to create artificially living beings who naturally possess moral status, will this artificiality modify their status? Many people contend that it will, but I am not of the same mind and will develop three arguments against it.

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