The Morals of Life: Biology, Biopolitics, Bioethics

A theory of biopolitical power that updates Foucault, illustrating the moral implications of modern evolutionary theory.

In our day, the individual has become “a life,” the singular of the plural noun “population.” From this new understanding of what it means to be human comes a new form of biopolitical power with a new set of moral rules. In The Morals of Life, moral philosopher Davide Tarizzo presents a theoretical framework for understanding this transformation of the old-fashioned “gover...