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Moral Enhancement by Technological Means: Possible, Permissible, a Duty? [PDF]

open access: yesInterdisciplinary 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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The current debate: (C+M) E and ultimate harm [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija 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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The Duty to be Morally Enhanced [PDF]

open access: yesTopoi, 2017
We have a duty to try to develop and apply safe and cost-effective means to increase the probability that we shall do what we morally ought to do. It is here argued that this includes biomedical means of moral enhancement, that is, pharmaceutical, neurological or genetic means of strengthening the central moral drives of altruism and a sense of justice.
Ingmar Persson, Julian Savulescu
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The myth of the moral enhancement: Back to the future? [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija i Društvo, 2012
This text tries to shed some light on the origin of the idea of moral enhancement, on its epistemic and moral foundations. This requires a comparative analysis of similar ideas present in various trends of bioethics today - the analysis of the very ...
Mitrović Veselin
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Integration of cognitive and moral enhancement [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija 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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Intelligence, empathy, and memory: Exploring moral enhancement through gene editing, training, and computer–brain interfaces

open access: yesHTS 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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Three Kinds of Moral Enhancement

open access: yes
Moral enhancement, an instance of human enhancement, alters a person’s dispositions, emotions or behavior in order to make that person more moral. I will argue that moral enhancement could be carried out in three different ways.
Jebari, Karim A.,
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Exploring Enhanced Military Ethics and Legal Compliance through Automated Insights: An Experiment on Military Decision-making in Extremis

open access: yesConatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2023
Numerous factors are known to impact human decision-making: fatigue, stress, fear, sleep deprivation, organizational culture, ethics, and even substances consumed, among others.
Ioanna Lekea   +2 more
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Would Aristotle have seen the wrongness of slavery if he had undergone a course of moral enhancement? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this record.I agree with those proponents of bio-medical moral enhancement who claim that we face large-scale global moral problems ...
Pleasants, NJ
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Enhancing Moral Conformity and Enhancing Moral Worth [PDF]

open access: yesNeuroethics, 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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