Is there a need for moral enhancement?

• Publication type: Journal article
• Journal:
  Éthique, politique, religions
  2015 – 1, n° 6
  . Le Transhumanisme
• Author: Reichlin (Massimo)
• Abstract: In several contributions, Persson and Savulescu have argued that there is an urgent need for moral enhancement. I suggest that their original argument, based on the connection between cognitive enhancement and moral enhancement, is inconclusive. I further take up a sceptical stance with respect to the more moderate view, defended by Douglas, according to which moral enhancement, though not a moral necessity, is inherently beneficial and worth pursuing. If moral enhancement interferes with the construction of our moral character, and risks endangering the integrity of the moral self, I suggest there may be reasons to doubt that it is morally permissible.
  
• Pages: 137 to 150
• Journal: Ethics, Politics, Religions
• CLIL theme: 3133 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Philosophie -- Philosophie contemporaine
• EAN: 9782812448409
• ISBN: 978-2-8124-4840-9
• ISSN: 2271-7234
• DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-4840-9.p.0137
• Publisher: Classiques Garnier
• Online publication: 09-18-2015
• Periodicity: Biannual
• Language: English
• Keyword: Moral enhancement; transhumanism; human dignity; coercion; moralising process.

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