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12. Or for that matter any living substance. This is presumably the source of
Hans Jonas's argument regarding the role of metabolism in identifying the pur-
posiveness of life (
The Phenomenon of Life
[Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1982], 74-83).
13. Thomas Hobbes,
Leviathan
(New York: Penguin Books, 1985), 129-130.
14. See Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics
10.4.1175a3-5.
15. Ibid., 10.5.1175b15, 1175b18.
16. Ibid., 10.8.1178b34-1179a4.
17. Ibid., 1.8.1099a31-1099b10.
18. Joseph Owens,
The Doctrine of Being in the Aristotelian Metaphysics
, 2nd
ed. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies 1963).
19. Aristotle,
Metaphysics
12.9.1074b15-1075a11.
20. See Hannah Arendt,
The Human Condition
(Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1998).
21. Aristotle,
Physics
1.9.192a16-19.
22. Arendt,
The Human Condition
, 176-181.
23. At least, it has been said by the secretary for the philosophy department of
the University of Scranton. I do not know of a more original source.
24. John Rawls,
A Theory of Justice
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1971). For a development of this position in regard to genetic engineering, see
Allan Buchanan, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels, and Daniel Wikler,
From
Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice
(New York: Cambridge University Press,
2000), 258-303.
25. See, for example, Hans Jonas, “Biological Engineering: A Preview,” in
Philosophical Essays
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), 141-167.
