An Argument against Arguments for Enhancement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12978188 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael J Selgelid (0000-0003-3496-2884, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-08 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Ethics Law and Technology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1941-6008 • E-ISSN: 2194-6280 |
| Publisher | Berkeley Electronic Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2202/1941-6008.1008 |
| OpenAlex | W2010196479 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The treatment-enhancement distinction is difficult to make, and defenders of enhancement often base their case on that. Critics of enhancement, however, often have prototypical cases of enhancement-oriented interventions in mind, and the ethics of these can be evaluated on a case by case basis. Things like intelligence enhancement may have adverse effects on equality and utility. If the equality and utility effects of such enhancements were sufficiently severe, then restrictions would be called for. We need to think more about how to make tradeoffs between liberty, equality, and utility and we need to know more about the extent to which each of these is at stake before reaching conclusions about the ethics of, and appropriate social policy regarding, human enhancement
Argument (complex analysis · Economics · Epistemology · Human enhancement · Law and economics · Performance enhancement · Positive economics · Psychological intervention · Sociology · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Ethics in medical practice · Medicine · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2010 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |