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The perils of moral enhancement

Author(s) -

Aleksandar Dobrijević

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

filozofija i drustvo

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116

H-Index - 1

eISSN - 2334-8577

pISSN - 0353-5738

DOI - 10.2298/fid1202104d

Subject(s) - human enhancement , cognition , epistemology , moral disengagement , psychology , sociology , social psychology , philosophy , neuroscience

The idea of biotechnological enhancement of people for non-medical purposes is not unambiguous. A gap that may arise between the “cognitive” and so-called “moral” enhancement points precisely to this fact. This article shows that, contrary to the intentions of its supporters, the idea according to which moral enhancement has precedence over cognitive enhancement is essentially just a new form of undermining human freedom. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 41004

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