First Things: Enhancement Biotechnology and Natural Law
Ryan T. Anderson and Christopher Tollefson at First Things:
Technology has outpaced moral reflection. That was a key insight of Harvard political theorist Michael Sandel in his book The Case Against Perfection. Sandel criticized professional bioethicists who were thoroughly entrenched in either a Kantian or consequentialist ethical system: “The familiar categories of autonomy and rights, on the one hand, and the calculation of costs and benefits, on the other” are inadequate, especially when it comes to deciding for what ends biotechnology should be used.
First Things has published an abbreviated version of this article. The full text is available on the New Atlantis.