Jean-Pierre Beland
Biographic Data
| ID | 1002589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean-Pierre Beland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean-Pierre |
| FAMILY NAME | Beland |
| SIGNATURE | BÉLAND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université du Québec à Chicoutimi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Risk and the Question of the Acceptability of Human Enhancement
The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the difficulties involved in interdisciplinary work on the question of the risks associated with the ethical and social acceptability of human enhancement through the development of nanotechnologies. These difficulties emerge in the context of the debate between transhumanism, whose principal defenders have backgrounds in the natural sciences, and humanism, whose principal defenders have backgrounds i…
Moral Arguments in the Debate over Nanotechnologies
How are we to understand the fact that the philosophical debate over nanotechnologies has been reduced to a clash of seemingly preprogrammed arguments and counterarguments that paralyzes all rational discussion of the ultimate ethical question of social acceptability in matters of nanotechnological development? With this issue as its starting point, the study reported on here, intended to further comprehension of the issues rather than provide a …
The Social and Ethical Acceptability of NBICs for Purposes of Human Enhancement
The emergence and development of convergent technologies for the purpose of improving human performance, including nanotechnology, biotechnology, information sciences, and cognitive science (NBICs), open up new horizons in the debates and moral arguments that must be engaged by philosophers who hope to take seriously the question of the ethical and social acceptability of these technologies. This article advances an analysis of the factors that c…
La condition de créature dans la Dogmatique de 1925 de Paul Tillich
Jean-Pierre Beland - The state of Mankind in Paul Tillich's Dogmatics. The publication, for the first time, in 1986 of Paul Tillich's Dogmatics written in 1925 before the Systematic Theology in the 1950s and 1960s, must be considered as a major theological event. The present article studies the condition of man in the Dogmatics. For Tillich creation cannot be considered without reference to sin. Existence is the meeting point of creation and fall
Substance catholique et principe protestant d'après Paul Tillich
Jean-Pierre Beland : Catholic substance and Protestant principle according to Paul Tillich. This article puts forward the theologian Paul Tillich's formula «Catholic substance and Protestant principle» as a possible means of transcending the conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism, terms which express an alienation from true Christianity. The formula seeks to bring out the fundamental structure and essence of the Church of Christ, as it sh…
The Social and Ethical Acceptability of NBICs for Purposes of Human Enhancement
The emergence and development of convergent technologies for the purpose of improving human performance, including nanotechnology, biotechnology, information sciences, and cognitive science (NBICs), open up new horizons in the debates and moral arguments that must be engaged by philosophers who hope to take seriously the question of the ethical and social acceptability of these technologies. This article advances an analysis of the factors that c…
Moral Arguments in the Debate over Nanotechnologies
How are we to understand the fact that the philosophical debate over nanotechnologies has been reduced to a clash of seemingly preprogrammed arguments and counterarguments that paralyzes all rational discussion of the ultimate ethical question of social acceptability in matters of nanotechnological development? With this issue as its starting point, the study reported on here, intended to further comprehension of the issues rather than provide a …
Substance catholique et principe protestant d'après Paul Tillich
Jean-Pierre Beland : Catholic substance and Protestant principle according to Paul Tillich. This article puts forward the theologian Paul Tillich's formula «Catholic substance and Protestant principle» as a possible means of transcending the conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism, terms which express an alienation from true Christianity. The formula seeks to bring out the fundamental structure and essence of the Church of Christ, as it sh…
La condition de créature dans la Dogmatique de 1925 de Paul Tillich
Jean-Pierre Beland - The state of Mankind in Paul Tillich's Dogmatics. The publication, for the first time, in 1986 of Paul Tillich's Dogmatics written in 1925 before the Systematic Theology in the 1950s and 1960s, must be considered as a major theological event. The present article studies the condition of man in the Dogmatics. For Tillich creation cannot be considered without reference to sin. Existence is the meeting point of creation and fall
Moral Arguments in the Debate over Nanotechnologies
How are we to understand the fact that the philosophical debate over nanotechnologies has been reduced to a clash of seemingly preprogrammed arguments and counterarguments that paralyzes all rational discussion of the ultimate ethical question of social acceptability in matters of nanotechnological development? With this issue as its starting point, the study reported on here, intended to further comprehension of the issues rather than provide a …
The Social and Ethical Acceptability of NBICs for Purposes of Human Enhancement
The emergence and development of convergent technologies for the purpose of improving human performance, including nanotechnology, biotechnology, information sciences, and cognitive science (NBICs), open up new horizons in the debates and moral arguments that must be engaged by philosophers who hope to take seriously the question of the ethical and social acceptability of these technologies. This article advances an analysis of the factors that c…
Risk and the Question of the Acceptability of Human Enhancement
The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the difficulties involved in interdisciplinary work on the question of the risks associated with the ethical and social acceptability of human enhancement through the development of nanotechnologies. These difficulties emerge in the context of the debate between transhumanism, whose principal defenders have backgrounds in the natural sciences, and humanism, whose principal defenders have backgrounds i…
Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works) · Human enhancement (2 works) · Humanism (2 works)