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The Duty to be Morally Enhanced [PDF]
Topoi, 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 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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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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, 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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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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Conatus - 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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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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Can a Soldier Say No to an Enhancing Intervention?
Philosophies, 2020 Technological advancements have provided militaries with the possibility to enhance human performance and to provide soldiers with better warfighting capabilities. Though these technologies hold significant potential, their use is not without cost to the
Sahar Latheef, Adam Henschke
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