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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, Maartje H.N. Schermer
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Moral Enhancement, Neuroessentialism, and Moral Content

, 2016
The conceptualization of morality by some proponents of moral bioenhancement requires particular epistemological commitments and neuroessentialist assumptions. This chapter examines these assumptions and shows why such premises are problematic for the development of a sophisticated framework of morality at the intersection of neuroscience and moral ...
Fabrice Jotterand
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The Misfortunes of Moral Enhancement.

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2016
In Unfit for the Future, Ingmar Persson and Julian Savulescu present a sophisticated argument in defense of the imperative of moral enhancement. They claim that without moral enhancement, the future of humanity is seriously compromised. The possibility of ultimate harm, caused by a dreadful terrorist attack or by a final unpreventable escalation of the
Marco Antonio Azevedo
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Virtue Theory for Moral Enhancement

AJOB Neuroscience, 2021
Our present moral traits are unable to provide the level of large-scale co-operation necessary to deal with risks such as nuclear proliferation, drastic climate change and pandemics. In order to survive in an environment with powerful and easily available technologies, some authors claim that we need to improve our moral traits with moral enhancement ...
Joao Fabiano
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Moral Enhancement

2023
AbstractShould we alter our brains to become better people? This chapter evaluates five key ethical concerns with going beyond treatment to enhancing ourselves. Such endeavors could, for example, bypass one’s agency, promote a problematic desire to master oneself, or lead to the rich getting morally richer.
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Moral Philosophy and Moral Enhancements

AJOB Neuroscience, 2011
In “‘Virtue Engineering’ and Moral Agency,” Fabrice Jotterand (2011) argues that the views of Aladsair MacInytre show why the whole transhumanist enterprise of moral enhancements is mistaken, built...
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Moral Enhancement, Enhancement, and Sentiment

2016
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Is there a need for moral enhancement?

2015
In several contributions, Persson and Savulescu have argued that there is an urgent need for moral enhancement. I suggest that their original argument, based on the connection between cognitive enhancement and moral enhancement, is inconclusive. I further take up a sceptical stance with respect to the more moderate view, defended by Douglas, according ...
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Enhancements Are a Moral Obligation

2009
Abstract If it wasn ‘t good for you it wouldn ‘t be enhancement. In terms of human functioning an enhancement is by definition an improvement on what went before. Not necessarily, as we shall see, an improvement on normal species functioning or species typical functioning, nor are enhancements justifled, as many seem to believe ...
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On Moral Enhancement

AJOB Neuroscience, 2012
John Shook (2012) defines moral enhancement as something that results in detectable modifications of one's moral conduct. This account fails to distinguish moral enhancement from moral compulsion.
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