City University of Hong Kong, Department of Public & Social Administration, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Am J Bioeth. 2010 Apr;10(4):62-70. doi: 10.1080/15265161003637541.
This essay explores a proper Confucian vision on genetic enhancement. It argues that while Confucians can accept a formal starting point that Michael Sandel proposes in his ethics of giftedness, namely, that children should be taken as gifts, Confucians cannot adopt his generalist strategy. The essay provides a Confucian full ethics of giftedness by addressing a series of relevant questions, such as what kind of gifts children are, where the gifts are from, in which way they are given, and for what purpose they are given. It indicates that Confucians should sort out different types of enhancement and bring them to the test of the Confucian values in terms of both Confucian virtue principles and specific ritual rules. It concludes that Confucians can accept some types of enhancement but must reject others.
本文探讨了儒家对基因增强的恰当看法。它认为，虽然儒家可以接受迈克尔·桑德尔（Michael Sandel）在其天赋伦理中提出的正式起点，即孩子应该被视为礼物，但儒家不能采用他的通才策略。本文通过回答一系列相关问题，提供了一种儒家式的天赋伦理，例如孩子是什么样的礼物，礼物来自何处，以何种方式给予，以及给予的目的是什么。它表明，儒家应该梳理不同类型的增强，并根据儒家美德原则和具体礼仪规则，将它们置于儒家价值观的检验之下。本文得出的结论是，儒家可以接受某些类型的增强，但必须拒绝其他类型的增强。
