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• Title:
  Moral Perfection and the Demand for Human Enhancement
• Creator:
  Warmbier, Adriana
• Description:
  In this article I discuss one of the most significant areas of bioethical interest, which is the problem of moral enhancement. Since I claim that the crucial issue in the current debate on human bioenhancement is the problem of agency, I bring out and examine the conditions of possibility of selfunderstanding, acting subjects attributing responsible authorship for their actions to themselves. I shall argue that the very idea of moral enhancement, properly understood, fails to justify the claims that enhancing the “biological” factor that plays a part in the process of making moral choices, whether through biomedical or genetic interventions, will actually increase the probability of having “morally better future motives”.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Copyright (c) 2017 Authors retain copyright and publishing rights to their articles in this journal, granting the journal the right to distribute them under the terms of the CC BY-SA 3.0 license.
• Date:
  2015.02.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English;
  eng
• Source:
  ETHICS IN PROGRESS; Vol. 6 No. 1 (2015); 23-37;
  Ethics in Progress; Tom 6 Nr 1 (2015); 23-37;
  2084-9257
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/eip/article/view/9305/9016
• Subject:
  Human enhancement;
  moral enhancement;
  human agency;
  free will;
  freedom;
  autonomy;
  normativity
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/eip/article/view/9305 ;
  10.14746/eip.2015.1.4
• Data provider:
  Wydział Filozoficzny UAM
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• Type:
  text