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Friday, April 18, 2003

# Posted 3:24 PM by Patrick Belton  

HOMEWORK!!!: (Dissertations don't count, for those of you who were curious.) The Presidential Commission on Bioethics has added to their website a thoughtfully selected electronic bookshelf of selections drawn from classical and modern literature and philosophy, all broadly bearing on bioethics. More precisely, the selections deal, mostly through literature, with the questions of what it means to be a link in a branching chain of generations; to pursue scientific discovery; to search for perfection, excellence, and human flourishing; and to experience vulnerability, suffering, and ageing. It's an excellent set of selections, which bridge Homer, Ovid, Tolstoy, and Richard Feynman - and for those of you somewhat hungrily experiencing bread and/or meat deprivation today and looking for some searching readings to situate it all within, I heartily recommend them.
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