Human Dignity and Bioethics

Index | 551
L
Lawler, Peter Augustine
commentary on 291–292
Lee, Patrick 517
Lewis, C. S. 123
The Abolition of Man 17, 65, 185,
217
Lewontin, Richard 53
liberalism 15, 53, 67, 360, 369
Lincoln, Abraham 105, 115, 261,
286–287, 290, 292, 391
Locke, John 12, 15, 102, 248, 287,
289, 317
Lucretius 90, 338
M
machines See humans: as machines
MacIntyre, Alasdair 223
Macklin, Ruth 9, 14, 19–20, 26–27,
32, 34, 254, 276, 277, 388, 437,
469, 470, 506–508, 534
Maimonides 400
Mandela, Nelson 102, 105
Marcel, Gabriel 264, 513, 514,
516–522, 528, 529, 537
Marcus Aurelius 7
Maritain, Jacques 360, 466
Marx, Karl 357 See also dignity:
Aristotelian/Marxian account of
Massey, Rev. Edward 109
Mather, Jennifer A. 144
The Matrix, film 162
McKibben, Bill 403
Meilaender, Gilbert 248, 517
commentary on 278–283,
284–290, 292
mental retardation See disabilities
Merzenich, Michael 140
Mill, John Stuart 26, 106
Milton, John 403
Mirandola, Pico della 184
Oration on the Dignity of Man 183,
205
mood control See enhancement:
mood control
Moravec, Hans 197
murder See death
N
Nagel, Thomas 123, 225
National Bioethics Advisory
Commission 28
National Commission for the
Protection of Human Subjects
of Biomedical and Behavioral
Research 20–33
Belmont Report 20, 23–26, 28, 31,
33
National Research Act of 1974 21
natural kinds See dignity: through
natural kind membership
natural law See nature: natural law
nature See freedom: from natural
necessity; See also God: nature’s;
See also right(s): natural
and convention 310
and freedom 68, 85, 86, 92, 338
and personhood 313
as historical 140
higher 314
mastery of 8, 14, 16, 17, 66, 81,
157, 185, 204, 242, 248, 299,
300, 302, 303
natural joints 96
natural law 220, 346
rhetoric of 372, 375
state of 322, 324
neuroscience 99, 114, 115, 117, 130,
136, 137, 140, 141, 143, 145,
242
Newman, John Henry 518, 520–522
Newton, Isaac 343
Nietzsche, Friedrich 54, 90, 160,
200, 337
“last man” 185, 305, 381
Nixon, Richard M., President 21
Nuffield Council on Bioethics 19–20
Genetics and Human Behavior: the