Raising the Virtuous Bar: The Underlying Issues of Genetic Moral Enhancement
From the perspective of virtue ethics, is it possible and permissible to enhance moral behavior through gene modification? In preparation to answer this question, we must ask five questions: (1) What may we assume regarding genetic inheritance and human nature? (2) Can specific genes predispose beha...
| Subtitles: | Moral enhancement and deification through technology? |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
[2018]
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Theology and science
Year: 2018, Volume: 16, Issue: 3, Pages: 279-287 |
| IxTheo Classification: | NBE Anthropology NCB Personal ethics NCJ Ethics of science |
| Further subjects: | B
moral enhancement
B Gene modification B ethical enhancement B Virtue B somatic versus germline B gene editing B therapy versus enhancement B Reinhold Niebuhr |
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