Knowing how to be good is immensely important. The same goes for knowing how to make others be good¿otherwise known as 'moral enhancement'. John Harris explores the many varied approaches to moral enhancement, from setting a good example to imbibing mood-altering substances, and asks whether and to what extent moral enhancement is possible.
Knowing how to be good is immensely important. The same goes for knowing how to make others be good¿otherwise known as 'moral enhancement'. John Harris explores the many varied approaches to moral enhancement, from setting a good example to imbibing mood-altering substances, and asks whether and to what extent moral enhancement is possible.
John Harris is Emeritus Professor of Bioethics at the University of Manchester. His books include: The Value of Life (Routledge, 1985), Wonderwoman and Superman (OUP, 1992), Clones Genes and Immortality (OUP, 1998). He is the author or editor of twenty books and over three hundred and fifty papers.
Inhaltsangabe
1: Introduction 2: What it's Like to be Good: Individual Responsibility 3: Taking the Human out of Human Rights 4: Moral Enhancement and Freedom 5: Taking Liberties with Free Fall 6: The God Machine, the God Delusion, and the Death of Liberty 7: 'Ethics is for Bad Guys': Putting the 'Moral' into Moral Enhancement 8: Molecules and Morality 9: Moral Progress and Moral Enhancement 10: Mind Reading and Mind Misreading 11: The Safety of the People 12: Persons or Machines Acknowledgements Index
1: Introduction 2: What it's Like to be Good: Individual Responsibility 3: Taking the Human out of Human Rights 4: Moral Enhancement and Freedom 5: Taking Liberties with Free Fall 6: The God Machine, the God Delusion, and the Death of Liberty 7: 'Ethics is for Bad Guys': Putting the 'Moral' into Moral Enhancement 8: Molecules and Morality 9: Moral Progress and Moral Enhancement 10: Mind Reading and Mind Misreading 11: The Safety of the People 12: Persons or Machines Acknowledgements Index
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