This is counting the cost on aljazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week predatory lender. China loans more money to the world than the richest 32 nations what does the world china and what does beijing get when you dont. Was this man really responsible for a one trillion dollar loss on wall street or was. Taking on big investors. And the story of the world over Migrant Workers stranded in thailand without jobs and no money for rent or food. The worlds 20 largest economies agreed to give 76. 00 of the poorest a Debt Repayment holiday but china has yet to publicly offer any support at a time many nations need the extra financial headroom to tackle the coronavirus pandemic beijing has been rapidly rolling out its belt and road initiatives to build infrastructure and increase its influence in mostly developing nations. Has come a huge cost for many of the 138 nations that have signed up to the program you may remember sri lanka couldnt keep up with payments
Read something a uterine cbc right there, center for bio transplants. We have medical miracles. Ethics and culture. But in fact they are not, are ts your website. There it is. I put below this and applications of new some colleagues and counterparts. The National Catholics bio knowledge andalmes. U wl have cost and you will ethics center, and that is have consequences i want to another center like yours on the other coast, catholic in description and teaching but under those things. Doing the same kind of work. We talk to the founder of a that is wonderful. So i want to encourage local institution that is an people to support your work, to go to the dinner if that makes international known study for bio ethics. Sense and tell us how much i . Staying home will slow the spread of covid19 and, doubt, save lives. A getting on the mailing list critical things like food, pharmacies, laundromats is good. We send out a news letter a week and it is written for anyone. And more remain available.
Uterine transplants. We have medical miracles. But in fact they are not miracles, they are techniques, applications of new knowledge and trials and experiments. If you have technique you will have cost and consequences and benefits as well. I want to understand those thing and invited a guest who can tell us about them. We talk to a medical professional a founder of a local institution that is a stuo ethics. Thank you for joining us. We will be back in a moment and talk about bio ethics. Hello and welcome to mosaic. Let me introduce our guest. Your face may be familiar to wed on television and radio. You are a medical professional by original training right . Now you are the president of a center for the study of bio ethics based in Pleasant Hill california. So, are you a local girl . Did you grow up here . I have been here since high school. So i consider myself a local girl. I married a Third Generation san franciscan. My first job was Critical Care nursing here in San Francisco. So
Both anciently and now, and always and is always perplexing, is what is being, end quote. Does this question apply to the being that is asking, to us . Be so and it seems so if so, and it seems so, then to paraphrase aristotle, the inquiry and perplexity in early times and now and always is this what is human being . Our panelists are christopher toll left seven, distinguished professor of philosophy, university of south carolina, charles rubin, associate professor of political science, Duquesne University and author of eclipse of man Human Extinction and the meaning of progress. Adam kuiper of the ethics and Public Policy center, editor of the new atlantis. Christopher. Thank you very much. Its a pleasure to be here. Unlike most of the panelists so far, im not a former student of leon kass. In fact, only was introduced to you yesterday morning. So i feel the need to ask permission, can i call you leon in the [laughter] thank you. Okay. With that down, nevertheless even though im not a
Now to Princeton University in new jersey for a look at the bioethics of medical technology aimed at enhancing the physical and mental capabilities that human beings. This is about an hour and a half. We turn rather abruptly from the prescientific to the scientific, from the Human Experience of the human to the scientific account of man, simplifications and what we imagine to be its implications. In book seven, chapter one of the metaphysics, aristotle says, quote, in fact the thing that has been sought both anciently and now and always and is always perplexing is what is being, end quote. Does this question apply to the being that is asking to us . If so, and it seems so, then to paraphrase aristotle, the inquiry and perplexity in early times and now always exist, what is human being . Our panelists are christopher tollison, distinguished professor of philosophy at the university of south carolina. Charles rubin come associate professor of Political Science at Duquesne University and