Re: Virtue Ethics, Deontological Ethics, and Biotechnology

 Stephen Bouma-Prediger at Hope College has written extensively on virtue ethics; most of it deals with the application to environmental issues. Similarly for Catholic theologian Louke Van Wensveen (see her book Dirty Virtues). A google search of either should turn up bibliographies. Nancy Murphey at Fuller Seminary has also turned to McIntyre and virtue ethics, seasoned with Wittgenstein, after more or less abandoning Lakatos' approach. Holmes Rolston provides a sympathetic but critical evaluation of virtue ethics as applied to the environment (see his website at Colorado State Univ. for a pdf to download).
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com>
To: asa@calvin.edu
Sent: Fri, 12 May 2006 22:39:20 -0400
Subject: Virtue Ethics, Deontological Ethics, and Biotechnology

I'm starting work on a paper that will examine a virtue ethics approach to biotechnology patent law. I'm getting reasonably well-versed in virtue ethics from secular and Catholic social theory perspectives, but I'm also trying to dig up evangelical perspectives. It seems there is some tension between deontological and virtue approaches within evangelicalism -- or maybe that's just my misperception based on early stage research. Anyway, I'd be grateful if anyone here is aware of any good sources from an evangelical / protestant perspective. (I'm aware of Hauerwas and the anabaptist tradition).
 
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Received on Sat May 13 18:48:49 2006