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Title
The ultimate enhancement of morality / Vojin Rakić.
ISBN
9783030724733 (electronic bk.)
3030724735 (electronic bk.)
9783030724726
3030724727
Published
Cham : Springer, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-72473-3 doi
Call Number
BJ1401
Dewey Decimal Classification
170
Summary
This book deals with good, evil, happiness and morally enhanced post-humans. It offers a succinct historical elaboration of philosophical stances towards morality and happiness, focusing on Kant's ideas in particular. Human augmented ethical maturity in a futuristic version of Kant' Ethical Commonwealth implies, among else, the following features: 1. Voluntary Moral Bio-Enhancement (VMBE); 2. Consequently, more happiness-- as morality and happiness are in a circularly supportive relationship; 3. Ultimate Morality (UM). In feature 2, deontological practice would result in a utilitarian outcome. By fulfilling our moral duties based on UM, we would gradually create a world of post-humans who approach moral and thus felicific perfection. UM is in its own way a universal morality. In line with the contention that Kant's vision of the (not immediate but more distant) future of humanity is one of a cosmopolitan moral order in which humans act virtuously in the broadest possible community, that is, humanity, it is justified to conclude that successful VMBE is conducive to Kant's vision. Therefore, this book is of great interest to a broad audience, such as those interested in VMBE and novel conceptions of morality, and those with an interest in the historical development of morality and happiness, in philosophy (specifically, ethics) and in post-humanity.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Series
SpringerBriefs in ethics. 2211-8101
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783030724726
Part 1: Morality and Happiness, Psychopathy and Utilitarianism
Ch. 1 Morality: Innate, Universal?
Ch. 2. Morality: Origin and Future
Ch. 3. Free Will and Moral Bioenhancement as a Compulsory Means of Avoiding Ultimate Harm
Ch. 4. Past and Present of Happiness and Morality
Ch. 5. The Future of Happiness and Morality, Psychopathy and Utilitarianism
Ch. 6. The Morality of a Global State, the Existence of Morally Superior Beings and special Suicide-Brief Conceptual Explanations
Part 2: Evil and Good
Ch. 7. Evil
Ch. 8. Good 1
Ch. 9. Good 2.
