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Moral Enhancement by Technological Means: Possible, Permissible, a Duty? [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2016 Attempts to enhance individual and communal morality are as old as human communal living itself. But only recently have philosophers, bioethicists and scientists begun to seriously consider the possibilities and implications of employing technological ...
Toni Pustovrh, Monika McCollister Pirc
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, 2021 Moral enhancements aim to morally improve a person, for example by increasing the frequency with which an individual does the right thing or acts from the right motives. Most of the applied ethics literature on moral enhancement focuses on moral bioenhancement – moral enhancement pursued through biomedical means – and considers examples such as the use
Charles Foster, Jonathan Herring
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The current debate: (C+M) E and ultimate harm [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2012 Persson and Savulescu (2011b) is a largely successful defense of the position promoted in Persson and Savulescu (2008) against Fenton’s critique of this position in Fenton (2009).
Rakić Vojin
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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 ...
Focquaert, Farah, Schermer, M
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 In this research article, I seek to expand the conversation regarding moral enhancement by identifying traits or capacities that if enhanced would lead to an increase in moral behaviour.
Braden Molhoek
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The perils of moral enhancement [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2012 The idea of biotechnological enhancement of people for non-medical purposes is not unambiguous. A gap that may arise between the “cognitive” and so-called “moral” enhancement points precisely to this fact.
Dobrijević Aleksandar
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Introduction: Moral Enhancement [PDF]
Topoi, 2019 n ...
Lavazza, Andrea, Reichlin, Massimo
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Enhancing Moral Conformity and Enhancing Moral Worth [PDF]
Neuroethics, 2013 It is plausible that we have moral reasons to become better at conforming to our moral reasons. However, it is not always clear what means to greater moral conformity we should adopt. John Harris has recently argued that we have reason to adopt traditional, deliberative means in preference to means that alter our affective or conative states directly ...
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Virtual Reality and Empathy Enhancement: Ethical Aspects
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020 The history of humankind is full of examples that indicate a constant desire to make human beings more moral. Nowadays, technological breakthroughs might have a significant impact on our moral character and abilities. This is the case of Virtual Reality (
Jon Rueda, Francisco Lara
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Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary, 2016 In recent years the progress of biomedical technologies has enabled man to enhance his physical and cognitive abilities by using pharmaceutical, surgical, or genetic techniques.
Consuelo Luverà
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