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AJOB Neuroscience, 2012
John Shook (2012) defines moral enhancement as something that results in detectable modifications of one's moral conduct. This account fails to distinguish moral enhancement from moral compulsion.
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John Shook (2012) defines moral enhancement as something that results in detectable modifications of one's moral conduct. This account fails to distinguish moral enhancement from moral compulsion.
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Genetic Moral Enhancement? Yes. Holiness? No
Theology and Science, 2018As moral human beings, we deplore our violence and try to rein it in through moral suasion and post-hoc restraint. Could genetic engineering help? Moral enhancement through genetic engineering might predispose us to performing good acts, good deeds ...
Alison M. Benders
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The Sins of Moral Enhancement Discourse
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2018The chapter will argue that the way current enthusiasm for moral enhancement is articulated in the extant literature is itself morally problematic. The moral evaluation (and ultimately disapproval) of the discourse will proceed through three stages ...
H. Wiseman
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An Unfit Future: Moral Enhancement and Technological Harm
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2018This essay addresses two aspects of Persson and Savulescu's case for moral enhancement: 1) the precise technological nature of ultimate harm, particularly as it applies to the ecological crisis, and 2) what is at stake in the solution they propose.
Lewis Coyne
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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2018
AbstractThe idea of using biomedical means to make people more likely to behave morally may have a certain appeal. However, it is very hard to find two persons – let alone two moral philosophers – who agree on what it means to be moral or to act morally.
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AbstractThe idea of using biomedical means to make people more likely to behave morally may have a certain appeal. However, it is very hard to find two persons – let alone two moral philosophers – who agree on what it means to be moral or to act morally.
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Moral Enhancement, Neuroessentialism, and Moral Content
2016The conceptualization of morality by some proponents of moral bioenhancement requires particular epistemological commitments and neuroessentialist assumptions. This chapter examines these assumptions and shows why such premises are problematic for the development of a sophisticated framework of morality at the intersection of neuroscience and moral ...
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People self-enhance on dimensions central of their self-concept. Morality is a highly central dimension for most, and so moral self-enhancement is pervasive. It can take various forms. For example, people regard themselves as superior to their peers on moral traits, more so than other central traits, and claim that they are more likely than their peers
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Questioning the Moral Enhancement Project
The American Journal of Bioethics, 2014Among the types of human enhancement available in the near future, moral bioenhancement is perhaps one of the most controversial.
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Direct vs. Indirect Moral Enhancement
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 2015Moral enhancement is an ostensibly laudable project. Who wouldn’t want people to become more moral? Still, the project’s approach is crucial. We can distinguish between two approaches for moral enhancement: direct and indirect. Direct moral enhancements aim at bringing about particular ideas, motives or behaviors.
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