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Moral Perfection and the Demand for Human Enhancement

open access: yesEthics 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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Trust and Psychedelic Moral Enhancement [PDF]

open access: yesNeuroethics, 2022
AbstractMoral enhancement proposals struggle to be both plausible and ethically defensible while nevertheless interestingly distinct from both cognitive enhancement as well as (mere) moral education. Brian Earp (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement83:415–439, 12) suggests that a promising middle ground lies in focusing on the (suitably qualified ...
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Moral Bioenhancement for Social Welfare: Are Civic Institutions Ready?

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2017
Positive assessments of moral enhancement too often isolate intuitive notions about its benefits apart from the relevance of surrounding society or civic institutions. If moral bioenhancement should benefit both oneself and others, it cannot be conducted
John R. Shook   +3 more
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Freedom and moral enhancement [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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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Sparking Religious Conversion through AI?

open access: yesReligions, 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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The choice between moral enhancement and ultimate harm [PDF]

open access: yesBelgrade 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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“Ethical Minefields” and the Voice of Common Sense: A Discussion with Julian Savulescu

open access: yesConatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2019
Theoretical ethics includes both metaethics (the meaning of moral terms) and normative ethics (ethical theories and principles). Practical ethics involves making decisions about every day real ethical problems, like decisions about euthanasia, what we ...
Julian Savulescu   +1 more
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Sobre a permissão moral das técnicas de melhoramento humano na seleção de embriões [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, Florianópolis, 2015.Esta dissertação trata do problema da permissibilidade moral das técnicas de melhoramento
Sousa, Laís Sirtoli de
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Cognitive and moral enhancement: a practical proposal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
According to Persson and Savulescu, the risks posed by a morally corrupt minority's potential to abuse cognitive enhancement make it such that we have an urgent imperative to first pursue moral enhancement of humankind – and, consequently, if we are a ...
Ragonese, Viola   +3 more
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APRIMORAMENTO HUMANO: UM NOVO TEMA DA AGENDA FILOSÓFICA

open access: yesPrincípios, 2015
Since before we can remember, humanity aims toovercome its biological limitations; such a goal has certainly playeda key role in the advent of technique.
Marco Antonio Azevedo
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