Ethical Virtue Criticism on Biological Genetic Engineering

Abstract:

21^st century is a century of life science and biotechnology. The modern biotechnology focusing on the genetic engineering has a rapid development, which plays a significant role in the solutions to the various coming problems of resources, environment, agriculture and medicine, etc. However, the conflict between biological engineering and ethical virtue has been an unavoidable problem, so how to strengthen the ethical virtue’s standardizing role to technique is the pressing matter of the moment. We have to have a clear understanding of the ethical virtue problems which are related to biological genetic engineering, and establish a full, scientific, tight policy as well as laws, ethical virtue requirements and mechanism to promote the development of the technology’s active role. In the 21^st century, biotechnology has been a key technology that is used to solve the economic and social problems of food, resources, and environment and so on; thus, biotechnology industry has become one of the domestic pillar industries to reflect a country’s comprehensive national power. Different from any one of the previous technology breakthroughs, the objects that modern biotechnology is cognizing and transforming are human closely related biological area ——microorganism, plants, animals and even we human beings. Biotechnology has widely penetrated into kinds of fields such as medicine, biology, industry and agriculture; gene drugs, gene treatment and transgenic animals and plants all has been developing rapidly. Therefore, there is a qualitative leap in man’s cognition of biological phenomena, and human beings has reached a new height and stand on a new starting point to discuss the significance and value of life.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 647)
• Pages: 299-303
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.647.299
• Online since: January 2013
• Authors: Li Yan Gong, Jing Wei Liu
• Keywords: Biotechnology, Ethical Virtue, Genetic Engineering

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