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The choice between moral enhancement and ultimate harm [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2013
'Ultimate harm' can be defined as the result of a catastrophic event or series of events that permanently destroy sentient life on Earth or make its conditions so unbearable that it cannot be considered worthy of living anymore.
Rakić Vojin
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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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A Cure for Humanity: the Transhumanisation of Culture [PDF]

, 2015
This paper examines the increasing integration of the radical human enhancement project into the cultural mainstream. The tacit identification of enhancement with therapy is no longer contested, but widely accepted.
Hauskeller, Michael
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Sparking Religious Conversion through AI?

Religions, 2022
This paper will take the stance that cognitive enhancement promised by the use of AI could be a first step for some in bringing about moral enhancement. It will take a further step in questioning whether moral enhancement using AI could lead to moral and
Moira McQueen
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Engendering moral post‐persons: A novel self‐help strategy [PDF]

, 2020
Humans are morally deficient in a variety of ways. Some of these deficiencies threaten the continued existence of our species. For example, we appear to be incapable of responding to climate change in ways that are likely to prevent the consequent ...
Crutchfield, Parker
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Is human enhancement possible if it comes from the outside?

Scientia et Fides, 2019
Throughout history, human beings have worked on their personal enhancement. Not only improving the living conditions, but also trying to improve the moral behavior of people, usually through education.
Rubén Herce
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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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Freedom and moral enhancement [PDF]

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2014
This issue of Journal of Medical Ethics includes a pair of papers debating the implications of moral bioenhancement for human freedom–and, especially, the question of whether moral enhancement should potentially be compulsory. In earlier writings Ingmar Persson and Julian Savulescu (P&S) argue that compulsory moral bioenhancement may be necessary to ...
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The ethical desirability of moral bioenhancement: A review of reasons [PDF]

, 2014
Background: The debate on the ethical aspects of moral bioenhancement focuses on the desirability of using biomedical as opposed to traditional means to achieve moral betterment.
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Moral Perfection and the Demand for Human Enhancement

Ethics in Progress, 2015
In this article I discuss one of the most significant areas of bioethical interest, which is the problem of moral enhancement. Since I claim that the crucial issue in the current debate on human bioenhancement is the problem of agency, I bring out and ...
Adriana Warmbier
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