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.

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

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.

Genome Editing for Involuntary Moral Enhancement

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
VOJIN RAKIĆ
Keyword(s):  
Genome Editing ◽  
Moral Enhancement ◽  
Moral Reflection ◽  
Moral Bioenhancement

Abstract:During the previous years, voluntary moral bioenhancement (VMBE) has been contrasted to compulsory moral bioenhancement (CMBE). In this paper a third possible type of moral bioenhancement is discussed: genome editing for moral enhancement of the unborn that is neither voluntary nor compulsory, but involuntary. Involuntary moral bioenhancement (IMBE) might engineer people who will be more moral than they otherwise would have been. The possibilities of genome editing aimed at moral enhancement of our offspring is assessed. It is argued that genome editing might have the potential to engineer our offspring in three domains: to be more empathetic, to be less violently aggressive, and to have a higher potential for complex moral reflection. Genome editing is discussed in these three domains, and a proposal made that a combination of VMBE and IMBE might be the best option humans have to become better.

MORAL PROGRESS AND MORAL ENHANCEMENT

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

Is Philosophy Relevant to Applied Ethics?

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Rorty
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Moral Theory ◽  
Applied Ethics ◽  
Moral Progress ◽  
Moral Intuitions ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Literature And Theology

Abstract:If, like Hegel and Dewey, one takes a historicist, anti-Platonist view of moral progress, one will be dubious about the idea that moral theory can be more than the systematization of the widely-shared moral intuitions of a certain time and place. One will follow Shelley, Dewey, and Patricia Werhane in emphasizing the role of the imagination in making moral progress possible. Taking this stance will lead one to conclude that although philosophy is indeed relevant to applied ethics, it is not more relevant than many other fields of study (such as history, law, political science, anthropology, literature, and theology).

scholarly journals Feasibility Study of Low Mass and Low Energy Consumption Drilling Devices for Future Space (Mining Surveying) Missions

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (16) ◽  
pp. 5005
Author(s):  
Adam Jan Zwierzyński ◽  
Wojciech Teper ◽  
Rafał Wiśniowski ◽  
Andrzej Gonet ◽  
Tomasz Buratowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Space Missions ◽  
Space Environment ◽  
Space Industry ◽  
Future Space ◽  
Low Energy Consumption ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Mining Methods ◽  
Climate Crisis

The global climate crisis forces the search for new ecological sources of energy and mining methods. Space mining can solve those problems, but, first, wide geological surveying space missions using drilling methods are necessary. Additionally, drilling methods will be important in geological, life searching, geoengineering, and many other studies of extraterrestrial objects. Space is becoming a new area of possible drilling applications. Designing future space drilling missions requires adapting drilling technologies, not only to the conditions of the space environment, but also to the economic and technological realities of the space industry. The possibility of constructing low mass coring devices with energy consumption below 100 W was investigated in this paper. Minimization of energy consumption and mass of a coring is essential for the device to be used in space missions, when lander instruments supplied by low power electric battery are expected to work reliably and the launch cost (depending of mass) at an economically acceptable level. Some similar devices investigated for the future space missions are known from papers listed in the references. To answer whether or not it is possible to build such devices, the authors performed initial drillability tests. The obtained results are presented in this paper.

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