Shaping Our Selves: On Technology, Flourishing, and a Habit of Thinking

Shaping Our Selves: On Technology, Flourishing, and a Habit of Thinking

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-216

  Parens, Erik ^a  

^a HASTINGS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Authenticity; Bioethics; Disability; Enhancement; Intuition; Normalization; Reason

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924306474     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190211745.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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