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Genome Editing for Involuntary Moral Enhancement.

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2019
During the previous years, voluntary moral bioenhancement (VMBE) has been contrasted to compulsory moral bioenhancement (CMBE). In this paper a third possible type of moral bioenhancement is discussed: genome editing for moral enhancement of the unborn ...
V. Rakić
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Enhancing Fabiano’s Virtue Theory for Moral Enhancement

AJOB Neuroscience, 2021
The grounding rationale for moral enhancement that Joao Fabiano (2021) promotes is the same as the one Persson and Savulescu advocate: safety—understood as the lowering of the probability of danger...
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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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Retributivism and the Moral Enhancement of Criminals Through Brain Interventions

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2018
This chapter will focus on the biomedical moral enhancement of offenders – the idea that we could modify offenders’ brains in order to reduce the likelihood that they would engage in immoral, criminal behaviour. Discussions of the permissibility of using
Elizabeth Shaw
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Lone Wolf Terrorists and the Impotence of Moral Enhancement

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2018
In their recent book Unfit for the Future, Persson and Savulescu make a heartfelt plea for the increasing necessity of “moral enhancement”, interventions that improve human capacities for moral behaviour.3 They argue that, with all the technological ...
V. Hardcastle
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Moral Enhancement as a Collective Action Problem

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2018
In light of the magnitude of interpersonal harm and the risk of greater harm in the future, Ingmar Persson and Julian Savulescu have argued for pharmacological enhancement of moral behaviour.
W. Glannon
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Empathy training through virtual reality: moral enhancement with the freedom to fall?

Ethics and Information Technology, 2023
Anda Zahiu, E. Mihailov, B. Earp, Kathryn B. Francis, Julian Savulescu   +4 more
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Biomedical Moral Enhancement in the Face of Moral Particularism

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2018
Biomedical moral enhancement, or BME for short, aims to improve people's moral behaviour through augmenting, via biomedical means, their virtuous dispositions such as sympathy, honesty, courage, or generosity.
Pei-hua Huang, Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu
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Raising the Virtuous Bar: The Underlying Issues of Genetic Moral Enhancement

Theology and Science, 2018
From the perspective of virtue ethics, is it possible and permissible to enhance moral behavior through gene modification? In preparation to answer this question, we must ask five questions: (1) What may we assume regarding genetic inheritance and human ...
Braden Molhoek
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Biomedical Moral Enhancement and Moral Progress

2018
This chapter critically examines a different and highly provocative response to the thesis that evolved human moral psychology poses severe and inflexible limitations on moral progress: the “evoliberal” proposal to re-engineer human moral psychology through biomedical technologies in order to solve some of our most pressing moral problems: war ...
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