scholarly journals The evolution of moral progress and biomedical moral enhancement

Bioethics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 814-819 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingmar Persson ◽  
Julian Savulescu
Keyword(s):  
Moral Enhancement ◽  
Moral Progress ◽  
Biomedical Moral Enhancement

scholarly journals Biomedical Moral Enhancement for Human Space Missions

Studia Humana ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Konrad Szocik
Keyword(s):  
Space Missions ◽  
Space Environment ◽  
Moral Enhancement ◽  
Moral Progress ◽  
Moral Intuitions ◽  
Moral Bioenhancement ◽  
Mission Success ◽  
Biomedical Moral Enhancement

Abstract Biomedical moral enhancement is an idea which states that human moral intuitions and patterns may be artificially improved by biomedical means. The rationale which lies behind moral bioenhancement is rooted in the idea that humans – in a moral and behavioral sense – are not evolutionally adapted to current ecological challenges. This idea is discussed in the paper in relation to human space missions to Mars and beyond. Because the space environment is a hazardous environment, there are some reasons to consider the idea of moral bioenhancement for the purposes of mission success and the safety of astronauts/space settlers. This paper discusses that idea in the context of a broader discussion on moral enhancement, moral bioenhancement related to earthly issues, and the idea of moral progress.

Biomedical Moral Enhancement and Moral Progress

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Moral Psychology ◽  
Evolutionary Model ◽  
Psychological Development ◽  
Moral Enhancement ◽  
Evolutionary Development ◽  
Moral Progress ◽  
Biomedical Technologies ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
Biomedical Moral Enhancement

This chapter critically examines a different and highly provocative response to the thesis that evolved human moral psychology poses severe and inflexible limitations on moral progress: the “evoliberal” proposal to re-engineer human moral psychology through biomedical technologies in order to solve some of our most pressing moral problems: war, terrorism, genocide, and climate change. It shows that the evoliberal position is premised on the same problematic evolutionary assumptions that underpin the evoconservative view. Once our world’s great moral problems are recast in terms of failures of moral inclusivity, it becomes clear that biomedical moral enhancement technology is unlikely to be necessary or effective in addressing them. To the contrary, the evolutionary model of moral psychological development sketched in Part II suggests that cultural moral innovations that deploy our best understanding of the evolutionary development of human morality stand the best chance of driving moral progress and preventing moral regression.

Moral Progress and Moral Enhancement

2016 ◽  
pp. 133-145
Author(s):  
John Harris
Keyword(s):  
Moral Enhancement ◽  
Moral Progress

MORAL PROGRESS AND MORAL ENHANCEMENT

Bioethics ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 285-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN HARRIS
Keyword(s):  
Moral Enhancement ◽  
Moral Progress

The Tragedy of Biomedical Moral Enhancement

Neuroethics ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-17
Author(s):  
Stefan Schlag
Keyword(s):  
Moral Enhancement ◽  
Biomedical Moral Enhancement

‘The Thorny and Arduous Path of Moral Progress’: Moral Psychology and Moral Enhancement

Neuroethics ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Zarpentine
Keyword(s):  
Moral Psychology ◽  
Moral Enhancement ◽  
Moral Progress

scholarly journals Biomedical Moral Enhancement – not a Lever without a Fulcrum

Neuroethics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingmar Persson ◽  
Julian Savulescu
Keyword(s):  
Moral Enhancement ◽  
Biomedical Moral Enhancement

scholarly journals The Irrelevance of a Moral Right to Privacy for Biomedical Moral Enhancement

Neuroethics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-37
Author(s):  
Ingmar Persson ◽  
Julian Savulescu
Keyword(s):  
Moral Enhancement ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Biomedical Moral Enhancement

Biomedical Moral Enhancement in the Face of Moral Particularism

2018 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 189-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei-Hua Huang ◽  
Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Moral Enhancement ◽  
Great Caution ◽  
Terrorist Financing ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
The Face ◽  
Moral Behaviour ◽  
Real Challenge ◽  
Biomedical Moral Enhancement

AbstractBiomedical moral enhancement, or BME for short, aims to improve people's moral behaviour through augmenting, via biomedical means, their virtuous dispositions such as sympathy, honesty, courage, or generosity. Recently, however, it has been challenged, on particularist grounds, that the manifestations of virtuous dispositions can be morally wrong. For instance, being generous in terrorist financing is one such case. If so, biomedical moral enhancement, by enhancing people's virtues, might turn out to be counterproductive in terms of people's moral behaviour. In this chapter, we argue, via a comparison with moral education, that the case for the practice of biomedical moral enhancement is not weakened by the particularists’ stress on the variable moral statuses of the manifestations of our virtues. The real challenge from the particularists, we argue, lies elsewhere. It is that practical wisdom, being essentially context-sensitive, cannot be enhanced via biomedical means. On the basis of this, we further argue that BME ought to be used with great caution, for it may wrongly enhance, for instance, a terrorist financier's generosity, a robber's courage, or an undercover detective's honesty. Finally, we sketch how boundaries can be set on the use of BME, and address some potential objections to our position.

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