Open AccessThe myth of the moral enhancement: Back to the future?
Author(s) -
Veselin Mitrović
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
filozofija i društvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2334-8577
pISSN - 0353-5738
DOI - 10.2298/fid1202111m
Subject(s) - bioethics , transhumanism , perspective (graphical) , environmental ethics , epistemology , mythology , sociology , moral philosophy , philosophy , political science , law , theology , computer science , artificial intelligence
This text tries to shed some light on the origin of the idea of moral enhancement, on its epistemic and moral foundations. This requires a comparative analysis of similar ideas present in various trends of bioethics today - the analysis of the very roots of Poter’s global bioethics, the idea of moral enhancement, as well as the break between advocates of moral enhancement and John Harris, their transhumanist colleague, with whom they used to share the same perspective. In this article we identify some basic starting points, similarities and differences between global bioethics and moral enhancement, and draw lines of demarcation between transhumanism and moral enhancement. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 179035: Izazovi nove društvene transformacije u Srbiji - koncepti i akteri