Taking liberties with free fall

In his ‘Moral Enhancement, Freedom, and What We (Should) Value in Moral Behaviour’,1 David DeGrazia sets out to defend moral bioenhancement (MB) from a number of critics, me prominently among them. Here he sets out his stall: Many scholars doubt what I assert: that there is nothing inherently wrong...

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Main Author: Harris, John (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: BMJ Publ. 2014
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2014, Volume: 40, Issue: 6, Pages: 371-374
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