The Responsibilities of Knowledge

摘要

The ethical and moral issues involved with the ability to effectively create life is a perennial topic for fiction. 2017 is the 200th anniversary of the first publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which explored that issue in a different age. In that story, Victor Frankenstein who creates the monster is not evil, but a scholar and researcher, although unconventional in his outlook and methods. It is his quest for knowledge that has tragic consequences and is his undoing.