How to enhance morality / Vojin Rakić.
Rakić, Vojin, author.
2021
BJ1595
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Title How to enhance morality / Vojin Rakić.
Author Rakić, Vojin, author.
ISBN 9783030727086 (electronic bk.)
3030727084 (electronic bk.)
9783030727079
3030727076
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72708-6
Published Cham : Springer, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 78 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-72708-6 doi
Call Number BJ1595
Dewey Decimal Classification 170/.44
Summary This book offers an innovative approach to moral enhancement. We, as humans, have a moral duty to be as good as we can be. Hence, moral bio-enhancement (MBE), if effective and safe, is our moral duty. However, it has to be voluntary because if it is made compulsory, human freedom (of the will) would be curtailed. As freedom (of the will) is an essential component of humanness, compulsory MBE would infringe upon our humanness. An essential question is; what will motivate humans to subject themselves voluntarily to MBE?The book argues - and supports by using empirical/experimental evidence - that morality and happiness operate in a circularly supportive relationship that applies to most humans most of the time: the better they are, the happier they will be; the happier they are, the better they will be. Hence, the grounding rationale for MBE ought not to be the prevention of "ultimate harm" based on compulsory MBE (as argued by Persson and Savulescu), but human happiness based on voluntary MBE. The primary objective of the book is to provide the readers with an original view on moral enhancement, whilst proposing a novel conception of moral enhancement that is informed by new biotechnological developments
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 23, 2021).
Series SpringerBriefs in ethics. 2211-8101
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Ch. 1 Enhancing performance
Ch. 2 Morality and moral bioenhancement
Ch. 3 Support and opposition
Ch. 4 Categorical opposition to MBE: Harris Wiseman
Ch. 5 Realistic means of enhancing morality and why compulsory MBE is ineffecive
Ch. 6 Voluntary moral bioenhancement and happiness as its grounding rationale: The best option on offer.

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