Can a Welfarist Approach be Used to Justify a Moral Duty to Cognitively Enhance Children?
The desire to self-improve is probably as old as humanity: most of us want to be smarter, more athletic, more beautiful, or more talented. However, in the light of an ever increasing array of possibilities to enhance our capacities, clarity about the purpose and goal of such efforts becomes crucial....
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Bioethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 30, Issue: 7, Pages: 528-535 |
IxTheo Classification: | NBE Anthropology NCH Medical ethics VA Philosophy |
Further subjects: | B
Intelligence
B Wellbeing B cognitive abilities B cognitive enhancement B Welfarism |
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