Bioethik in Deutschland - ein Überblick über die letzten Debatten

In The New Atlantis - A Journal of Technology & Society überblickt Eric Brown The Dilemmas of German Bioethics, von den braunen 12 Jahren der jüngeren deutschen Geschichte und das anschließende "Nie wieder" bis zum mephistophelischen Menschenzähmer Sloterdijk und zu Jürgen Habermas, dem säkularen "Verzögerer der biogenetischen Revolution" in Deutschland.

Für Brown steht Habermas und die deutsche säkulare Bioethik auf den wackligen Füßen des "Nie wieder":

"Perhaps Habermas, like Kant, is a great delayer of the biogenetic revolution. He grapples with the limits of unadulterated reason alone to defend the liberal ideal in the genetic age. His argument depends on adopting the familiar German attitudes of pessimism and precaution about the consequences of modern technology to ground a sense of obligation to the future. He looks to pathos to guide reason; he appeals to fear to remind us of generations not yet born. But the only plausible ground for this fear in secular Germany is the fear of repeating the German past. Liberal dignity needs German memory. Yet neither liberalism nor German memory stand on firm ground. Both are, in the German mind, creatures of history."