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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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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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Journal of Applied Philosophy, 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, Thomas
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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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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 and Cheapened Achievement: Psychedelics, Virtual Reality and AI [PDF]
BioethicsA prominent critique of cognitive or athletic enhancement claims that certain performance-improving drugs or technologies may ‘cheapen’ resulting achievements.
Brian D. Earp +2 more
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Integration of cognitive and moral enhancement [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2012 I will discuss four major perspectives on cognitive enhancement and morality: 1) cognitive enhancement is morally impermissible because humans are not supposed to alter what God has ordained or nature has shaped; 2) cognitive enhancement is our moral ...
Rakić Vojin
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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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Moral enhancement and moral disagreement [PDF]
, 2014 At first glance, the project of moral enhancement (making people more moral) may appear uncontroversial and obviously worth supporting; surely it is a good idea to make people better. However, as the recent literature on moral enhancement demonstrates, the situation is not so simple – there is significant disagreement over the content of moral norms as
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Cognitive Diversity and Moral Enhancement [PDF]
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2014 Abstract:One debate in contemporary bioethics centers on whether the development of cognitive enhancement technologies (CETs) will hasten the need for moral enhancement. In this article we provide a new argument in favor of pursuing these enhancement technologies together.
Gyngell, C, Easteal, S
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