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MORAL ENHANCEMENT AND FREEDOM [PDF]
Bioethics, 2011 ABSTRACTThis paper identifies human enhancement as one of the most significant areas of bioethical interest in the last twenty years. It discusses in more detail one area, namely moral enhancement, which is generating significant contemporary interest.
Harris J.
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GETTING MORAL ENHANCEMENT RIGHT: THE DESIRABILITY OF MORAL BIOENHANCEMENT [PDF]
Bioethics, 2013 ABSTRACTWe respond to a number of objections raised by John Harris in this journal to our argument that we should pursue genetic and other biological means of morally enhancing human beings (moral bioenhancement). We claim that human beings now have at their disposal means of wiping out life on Earth and that traditional methods of moral education are ...
Julian SĂVULESCU
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Smarter Than Thou, Holier Than Thou: The Dynamic Interplay Between Cognitive and Moral Enhancement [PDF]
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2018 The debate about the desirability of using drugs to enhance human skills encompasses cognitive abilities such as memory and attention, and moral capacities such as emotional empathy and a sense of fairness.
Gabriela Pavarini +2 more
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Moral Hard-Wiring and Moral Enhancement. [PDF]
Bioethics, 2017 AbstractWe have argued for an urgent need for moral bioenhancement; that human moral psychology is limited in its ability to address current existential threats due to the evolutionary function of morality to maximize cooperation in small groups.We address here Powell and Buchanan's novel objection that there is an ‘inclusivist anomaly’: humans have ...
Persson I, Savulescu J.
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Procedural Moral Enhancement. [PDF]
Neuroethics, 2019 While philosophers are often concerned with the conditions for moral knowledge or justification, in practice something arguably less demanding is just as, if not more, important - reliably making correct moral judgments. Judges and juries should hand down fair sentences, government officials should decide on just laws, members of ethics committees ...
Schaefer GO, Savulescu J.
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The evolution of moral progress and biomedical moral enhancement. [PDF]
Bioethics, 2019 AbstractIn The Evolution of Moral Progress Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell advance an evolutionary explanation of moral progress by morality becoming more ‘inclusivist’. We are prepared to accept this explanation as far as it goes, but argue that it fails to explain how morality can become inclusivist in the fuller sense they intend. In fact, it even
Persson I, Savulescu J.
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Moral enhancement and the good life. [PDF]
Med Health Care Philos, 2019 One approach to defining enhancement is in the form of bodily or mental changes that tend to improve a person's well-being. Such a "welfarist account", however, seems to conflict with moral enhancement: consider an intervention that improves someone's moral motives but which ultimately diminishes their well-being.
Zohny H.
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Moral Enhancement: Do Means Matter Morally? [PDF]
Neuroethics, 2015 One of the reasons why moral enhancement may be controversial, is because the advantages of moral enhancement may fall upon society rather than on those who are enhanced. If directed at individuals with certain counter-moral traits it may have direct societal benefits by lowering immoral behavior and increasing public safety, but it is not directly ...
Farah Focquaert +2 more
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J Appl Philos, 2008 abstract Opponents of biomedical enhancement often claim that, even if such enhancement would benefit the enhanced, it would harm others. But this objection looks unpersuasive when the enhancement in question is a moral enhancement — an enhancement that will expectably leave the enhanced person with morally better motives than she had previously.
Douglas T.
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Biomedical moral enhancement for psychopaths. [PDF]
BioethicsAbstractThis study examines the ethical permissibility of biomedical moral enhancement (BME) for psychopaths, considering both coercive and voluntary approaches. To do so, I will first briefly explain what psychopaths are and some normative implications of these facts.
Yoon J.
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