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Moral Enhancement: Do Means Matter Morally? [PDF]

open access: yesNeuroethics, 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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On Defining Moral Enhancement: A Clarificatory Taxonomy [PDF]

open access: yesNeuroethics, 2014
Recently there has been some discussion concerning a particular type of enhancement, namely 'moral enhancement'. However, there is no consensus on what precisely constitutes moral enhancement, and as a result the concept is used and defined in a wide variety of ways.
Kasper Raus   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

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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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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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 ...
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