Unnatural Enhancements

This paper claims that the distinction between therapy and enhancement, which has played a significant role in the discussion of the moral implications of human enhancements, is of only secondary and subordinate importance. Of much greater importance is the distinction between natural and unnatural...

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Autores principales: Jensen, Steven J. (Autor) ; Widow, José Luis (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publicado: [2018]
En: Irish theological quarterly
Año: 2018, Volumen: 83, Número: 4, Páginas: 347-364
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Auto-optimización / Terapia / Naturalidad / Edición de genoma
Clasificaciones IxTheo:NBE Antropología
NCJ Ética de la ciencia
Otras palabras clave:B Ethics
B Therapy
B Transhumanism
B natural
B enhancements
B unnatural
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Sumario:This paper claims that the distinction between therapy and enhancement, which has played a significant role in the discussion of the moral implications of human enhancements, is of only secondary and subordinate importance. Of much greater importance is the distinction between natural and unnatural enhancements, or rather between natural and unnatural means of enhancing. After briefly indicating the moral significance of the distinction between what is natural and unnatural, the paper focuses on the difficult task of discriminating between those means of enhancing that are natural and those that are unnatural.
ISSN:1752-4989
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Irish theological quarterly
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0021140018795751